Voicing

[Jon Page]

Standard pre-voicing needle work.  Hammers hung, needled in this fashion.

Jon Page

At 11:30 PM 9/18/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi folks
>
>Ran into a neat "aha!" experience today while trying out
>some of Andres tips about voicing. He uses an approach he
>referes to as "battery" voicing, where the low deep needling
>area of the felt is more or less kept in reserve as power to
>be made available when needed.
>
>Well, today I got a bit carried away with some close to
>crown needling on a few hammers in the bass / tenor change
>over area, so I ran a about 6 deep single fat needle sticks
>in well halfway down the hammer at 90 degrees from the core
>and WOW !!... not only did all the volume I had lost come
>back but a resiliency characteristic to the sound... as in
>increased dynamics big time.
>
>In any case, for anyone struggling to get farther in voicing
>skills,,,, next time you get an instrument that hasnt had a
>lot of needling, but hammers are packed and hard from use
>give this a try. The results are very very easy to hear,
>instructive to be sure.
>
>Cheers!
>
>--
>Richard Brekne
>RPT, N.P.T.F.
>UiB, Bergen, Norway
>mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no
>http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html
>
>
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