---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment On 28-nov-2005, at 22:35, St=C3=A9phane Collin wrote: > Hello Alan. > > Nice thread for sure. > My own definition, though, would replace the ideas of optimal power =20= > and sustain and even tone from note to note by the more complex =20 > idea of charm, which may or may not include or exclude all or part =20 > of the former and other things. > > Best regards. > > St=C3=A9phane Collin. > > > I'm looking to develop a short but comprehensive definition of =20 > piano voicing. So far, I've got: > "Voicing is setting the overall brightness of the piano and evening =20= > out the tone from note to note, while optimizing power and sustain. " > > Ideas appreciated, please. > > Alan Barnard > Salem, Missouri > > Hi St=C3=A9phane and list, When I think about voicing, the word tells me what it is : give the =20 hammers a voice In German it is called "intonieren" and in Dutch it is "Intoneren" =20 which sort of means "working with tone, sound". To give a piano a voice is one. What kind of voice another issue. EAR friendly greetings from Andr=C3=A9 Oorebeek R. Vinkeleskade 1-3hg 1071 SN Amsterdam The Netherlands tel/fax : 0031-20-6237357 gsm : 0031-645-492389 www.concertpianoservice.nl =EF=BF=BC and the stories I hear! ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment --Apple-Mail-74-292404136 An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/10/d3/59/0f/attachment.htm --Apple-Mail-74-292404136 A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: EAR.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 17820 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20/d4/5a/6e/EAR.jpg --Apple-Mail-74-292404136-- ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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