Vice Grip voicing

[Conrad Hoffsommer]

At 07:40 AM 9/28/2005 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi all.
>
>This is a technique that's been added to the ever-increasing arsenal of 
>voicing techniques..but it has been met with much concern and raised 
>eyebrows in the field..more than steam voicing.
>
>Here's the scenario:
>
>-Client's home with, usually, a newer piano. After tuning, I go through 
>the action with needles and vice grips. Needles will get a few questions, 
>but the vice grip method always, and I mean always, brings another arsenal 
>of questioning..almost as if they could do it themselves if they were 
>shown a thing or 2.
>
>For those of us who do alot of in-home service of new to newer pianos that 
>really require this technique, how do you answer the questions about the 
>viability and the longevity of the technique. Of course, after hearing the 
>difference, their brows come back down towards their eyes...
>
>Thanks,
>
>-Phil Bondi(Fl)



Tell 'em ya gots ta fight fire with fire.  Those ceramic hammers have a 
vise grip on the tone and you must use the right tool.  One that's strong 
enough to overcome that grip and release the tone.

(i.e. - punishment fitting the crime)

anon