Antares in Bergen

[Avery Todd]

Sounds like a good potential "Annual" Convention class to me!

Avery

At 09:38 PM 03/11/02 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi there guys and gals.
>
>The rush this past month has settled down now and I get to re-join the
>throng here for a while. I have had an unusual time of it with lots of
>more then usual demanding work and tunings around western Norway, and we
>here in Bergen have been preparing for a special little event that to my
>knowledge has never happened here before.
>
>I have always wanted to get a closer look at some real down to earth
>voicing, by someone who has had lots of factory experience, and a good
>deal of no-BS concert work and so I got the University to aggree with
>bringing in Andre' from Amsterdam up for a weekend to show myself and 4
>other western Norway techs what he can do. We bought a set of excellent
>quality hammers and shanks from Renner... of Andre's personal choice and
>preference, and our newest Norwegian RPT Nils Henrick Jansen and myself
>did our best to install them. Nils taught me a method of hammer hanging
>I had not experienced before, and I introduced him to basic Stanwood
>principals of evening out and balancing the actions SW, FW and leverage.
>
>Andre came then to Bergen friday afternoon and was given the task of
>voicing this brand new set of hammers on a little used and quite nice 10
>year old Steinway B from Hamburg. The action was pretty well regulated,
>but not better then was necessary for the job at hand. Perfectly useable
>as it was, but rough by any really fine regulation standards. In other
>words, the perfect situation for this class of ours.
>
>Students and teachers were involved and were invited to play the piano
>before and after Andre's work. On Saturday and Sunday we five were
>privileged enough to watch a real master at work, and he was absolutely
>fabulous at explaining his personal voicing philosophy, his knowledge
>and experiences from factory work at S&S Hamburg, Yamaha Japan,
>Bosendorfer, and Bechstein, and keeping us entertained at the same time
>with plenty of humor and kidding around. And the result was just great.
>We all got to watch this master job at work from the first stitch to the
>final product in an intensive experience that we will all benefit from
>in our further work.
>
>Thanks Andre, and the other western Norway techs involved for a
>fantastic seminar experience. Lets hope this is the first of many such
>events to come in the future.
>
>--
>Richard Brekne
>RPT, N.P.T.F.
>Bergen, Norway
>mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no
>http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html