[CAUT] Book & DVD: The Voice of the Piano, by André Oorebeek

Jeannie Grassi jcgrassi at earthlink.net
Tue Apr 7 21:57:55 PDT 2009


Hi Jurgen,

This is exciting news.  Can you please bring me a copy of the book and DVD
when you come for the Seminar with Darrell next week?  May I pay you then?
Thanks so much,

jeannie

 

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From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Jurgen
Goering
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 9:00 AM
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Subject: [CAUT] Book & DVD: The Voice of the Piano, by André Oorebeek

 



Jurgen Goering

There is little question that the pinnacle of our work as piano technicians
is voicing the instrument. Without voicing, the piano will have a raw,
unblended and uneven tone, with only a very truncated spectrum of tone
colors available to the artist. It is only through our work with needles,
files and other tools that the voice of the piano is brought out, resulting
in a tone with that magical combination of power and silk.

Interestingly, voicing is a topic that has not really been well covered in
the technical literature. Although articles and brochures have been written,
there has been no book focussing entirely on this art and craft. Until now.

I certainly do not have the training and years of experience required to
write such a book. But I know someone who does: André Oorebeek. Not only
does he have the knowledge, he had also been working on a voicing manual for
a number of years. 

André handed me his manuscript last year and gave me brief instructions:
“Jurgen, I want you to turn this into a book.”
So I did.

I proudly, and humbly, present to you: the book and the DVD:
“The Voice of the Piano – a technicians definitive guide to voicing”
by André Oorebeek 




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