hammer voicing

[Avery Todd]

Israel,
   Congratulations on your wedding! Hope everything went fine and that you
both will be very happy.
   Not any "sloppy thinking" that I can see. That possibility never
occurred to me.

>>   One question. Everett mentions a glorious sound with the pedal in the
>>normal position. If it was over (under) centering, wouldn't that also
>>affect the tone in that position?
>>   Just wondering.
>>
>
>I'm wondering too. Ran accross this on a newish Steinway B - the tone in the
>treble was acceptable in the full position and thin-brittle in the shift
>position. I don't understand why the shift exaggerates the problem...
>Several technicians before me (including the dealer's) gave up. The hammers
>were overcentering - nobody caught that... After fixing that it voiced just
>fine. So I tossed it in the hopper as a possibility - in retrospect maybe I
>should not have phrased my post quite as authoritatively...  (but it was
>late at night, two days before my wedding so please pardon the sloppy
>thinking). (Re-reading Everett's post again I'm not sure if his top treble
>had a "glorious sound" in unshifted position or not...)
>
>Israel Stein

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Avery Todd, RPT
Moores School of Music
University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204-4893
713-743-3226
atodd@uh.edu
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