This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment ----- Original Message -----=20 From: antares=20 To: Pianotech=20 Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 3:58 PM Subject: Re: Self voicing hammers/work hardening /.....Flamesuit? why? On 23-mei-05, at 21:42, Barbara Richmond wrote: <snip> =20 I can imagine all sorts of scenarios, but I'm thinking the one that = might match what's happening in this case, is that the church has been = told to "work harden" to get the sound they want. Now, it's not that I = don't believe the benefits of work hardening, but I don't think folks = should be frustrated by how their piano plays and sounds, either. I = worked on a lovely D at Illinois Wesleyan University for the first 5 1/2 = years of its life. It was a delight to see it mature, but there was = also the expectation from the very beginning that it would always be up = to performance level. =20 Whatever the truth of the situation is, it made me wonder about the = excuse of "work hardening" instead of putting the piano close to the = voicing level that is really wanted. How much "voicing" does work = hardening account for? As I said before, I listened to the changes in = a D for 5 1/2 years in a university school of music, the whole time = working with the voicing. Well, I would expect to be constantly working = on the voicing of any performance piano, anyway. Would using the excuse = (exclusively) of work hardening say more about the tech's ability to = handle the voicing and/or what voicing tools (as in whatever methods) = they use? =20 =20 <snip> It is actually quite simple Barbara, as you know too well... There are just very few people who know what real voicing is. When being confronted with a puzzle they can't solve, they will tell = stories, if only to mask their ignorance. Flamesuit?=20 why? Oh, heck, there could be the chance that I am being blasphemous. I = don't have much experience with too soft Steinway hammers--mostly = over-hardened ones. But I do have experience with some that are just = fine, just so you know. :-)=20 On the other hand, I don't think that after paying $90,000 or whatever = for a piano, it should take years(?, if it takes that) to get the = desired tone. Barbara ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/6e/6c/78/ca/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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