Dear Ralph, The choice for me in all performance issues in the university mode will be Steinway hammers on all high-end instruments for mostly Steinway, Mason and Hamlin, and Baldwin pianos. For custom boring I suggest sending them raw from the factory to Peter Collora in Dallas, Texas. His workmanship is superb. Voicing principles to me simply start with a soft quality hammer and juicing it up to the desired range without totally losing tonal control in the softest ranges. I try to have customers imagine the sound difference between a golf ball dropped six inches from above the strings or a tennis ball dropped the same way. Usually the client immediately relates to the picture, so the way I see this sometimes overly rated voicing art is to just take that tennis ball and harden it towards the golf ball level without losing its ability to always flex to the core. ==== Brent Fischer, Piano Technician School of Music, Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona 85287-0405 602/965-6760 FAX 602/965-2659 Msg 602/965-3371 http://www.asu.edu/cfa/music/
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