[CAUT] Voicing Steinway D

[Chris Solliday]

Amen Horace
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Horace Greeley" <hgreeley at sonic.net>
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 10:19 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Voicing Steinway D


> At 03:32 PM 1/5/2008, you wrote:
> >I guess its the "same sound" thing. Well I meant the same power and same
> >attack. I'd really rather not go into a voicing in all its aspects and
> >qualities. I hope this clarifies sufficiently. I was only trying to tell
the
> >guy where the lacquer should go for the best bang for the buck. "Ala
> >Drasche," as Franz always calls it, is saturating with a thin solution
then
> >building up with heavier, but that's not what is done to Ds at Steinway.
> >Building up the solids directly in the crown will yield the best result.
Of
> >course then you start needling and ....
>
> ....and, all of this depends on what kind of sound you want, to begin
with.
>
> Best.
>
> Horace
>
>
> >Chris
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Richard Brekne" <ricb at pianostemmer.no>
> >To: <caut at ptg.org>
> >Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 9:09 AM
> >Subject: [CAUT] Voicing Steinway D
> >
> >
> > > Er... ja... but if you say you can cut completely away the shoulders
and
> > > have no impact on sound on the one hand.... its kind of difficult to
> > > understand that needling these same shoulders instead of cutting them
> > > completely away will have an impact. Or what ?
> > >
> > > Perhaps a bit of clarification as to what you meant about cutting the
> > > shoulders away and having no impact on the sound is needed here ?
> > >
> > > Hope to see you guys over here next year btw !  Have gotten several
> > > mails from various corners on the subject... would be really cool me
> > > thinks !
> > >
> > > Cheers, and Happy New Year !
> > > RicB
> > >
> > >     one thing (lacquer) is for power or volume and the other (needles)
> > >     is for
> > >     other aspects of tone. call em what you like.
> > >     Chris