---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment On 29-nov-2005, at 19:31, St=C3=A9phane Collin wrote: > Yahoo ! Andr=C3=A9 ! > > Long time no see. > Great to read you again here. And you St=C3=A9phane! > > Now, if, yes, this is all a matter of taste, as stated by others, =20 > what I would find interesting is to sort out what is a matter of =20 > taste from what is obviously faulty. Difficult, but certainly =20 > important to master. Any ideas ? > > Best regards. > > St=C3=A9phane Collin. Let me put it this way (since you ask me) : It is maybe better to simplify things in the first place, because =20 this whole thing about voicing is so abstract. We have a piano A, consisting of a soundboard, a wooden frame, an =20 iron frame, a bunch of strings, a keyboard and an action. All this combined will give a specific kind of sound, totally =20 different from piano B. which was built in a slightly different way. So Piano A and B have different personalities and both these =20 different personalities may have different characters. When we hit a string of piano A, with an unvoiced hammer, the outcome =20= will be condensed and the hardness and shrillness predictable because =20= of the high overtones being activated by a stone hard hammer =20 (assuming the unvoiced hammer is stone hard). Nevertheless, it will =20 already be possible to distinguish a trace of a personality, hidden =20 and masked by the 'voice', the hammer. The same of course for piano B. Now what we do with voicing the hammers, is sort of playing with the =20 possibilities the personality of the piano and its hammer gives us. Playing with the hammer is in an way limited, because we have only a =20 number of possibilities here : we can leave it the way it is we can give it a small cushion we can give it a big cushion we can give it a hard crown, combined with a small cushion we can give it a mellow crown, combined with a big cushion we can give it a limited battery voicing, combined with the above we can give it a huge battery voicing, combined with the above we can give it a tulip shape, combined with the above we can give it an egg shape, combined with the above we can give it a diamond shape, combined with the above There are more things we can do, but I think this is enough as an =20 example. Anyway, what I am trying to say, is that we will always be able to =20 distinguish the personality, but this personality can be masked with =20 quite a number of personae. That's why I mentioned before : To give a piano a voice is one thing, What kind of voice is another. 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-41-374487055 An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/1d/df/14/96/attachment.htm --Apple-Mail-41-374487055 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/5b/89/c0/8d/EAR.jpg --Apple-Mail-41-374487055-- ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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