Voicing

[Jon Page]

At 06:13 PM 9/19/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>Jon Page wrote:
>
> > Standard pre-voicing needle work.  Hammers hung, needled in this fashion.
>
>Hi Jon... Andre is the only person I have ever run into with this order of
>things. Almost everywhere I look we are told to needle first deep and low for
>power, then middle and half deep for mf, then shallow and close to top for
>pp. The only real exceptions I have ever seen to this norm before were a
>class at Sherman and Clay given by Franz Mohr who more or less called BS on
>the whole voicing world and said its all about the crown, and the steam /
>water/alchohol variants.
>
>Are you saying that standard pre voicing is done by softening up the near
>crown area  and then working on deep needling after the hammers are in the
>piano ?
>
>Interested:
>
>RicB

On Abel Hammers, pre-voicing is deep needles parallel to the molding as per 
Wally's info sheet.

Regards,

Jon Page,   piano technician
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass.
mailto:jonpage@attbi.com
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