---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment On 2-okt-04, at 20:07, Marcel Carey wrote: > =A0 > This is such an incredible topic. It will be very difficult to verify=20= > truth from fiction, but here's my take. > =A0 > The mission of voicing would be to have a hammer that will compress=20 > until it gets the strings at their maximum deflection. At that=20 > nanosecond, the hammer should get away from the string by it's own=20 > stored energy (compressed felt). When it doesn't, it is using the=20 > string's energy to be pushed back from the strings. This would then=20 > decrease the max sound output of the strings and would dampen some=20 > part of the harmonic structure of the sound. But this is all a=20 > question of balance and equilibrium. Only our ears can tell us what's=20= > the most desirable sound a piano can produce. > =A0 > Marcel Carey, RPT > Sherbrooke, QC > And that is precisely what makes voicing hammers so complicated, but at=20= the same time such a challenge, because....... The learning process of voicing a piano requires first of all many=20 years of tuning and regulation. The ability to find one's balance in voicing at least the same time. The ability to make every voicing an harmonious success takes at least=20= a full professional life. I am still learning, and still always at awe of the complexity. friendly greetings from Andr=E9 Oorebeek "where Music is, no harm can be"= ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 1836 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/64/d0/fb/d9/attachment.bin ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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