Voicing Help

[Willem Blees]

Julia

Have you tried steam voicing? That really takes the edge off the sound. Try a little on one hammer and see what reaction you get. After you do all of them,?needle voice?for more subtle changes.?On uprights, I?voice by pushing one needle in?at about 1 o'clock, but going across the top, and not down in. (Like you're trying to slice off the top of the hammer).?I repeat as many times as needed to get the sound I want. 
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Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT
Piano Tuner/Technician
Honolulu, HI
Author of 
The Business of Piano Tuning
available from Potter Press
www.pianotuning.com


-----Original Message-----
From: KeyKat88 at aol.com
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: Sun, 4 May 2008 4:32 pm
Subject: Voicing Help



Greetings,

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???????? I usually shallow needle my Yami's U3?hammers after tuning to take off the "glassy" edge. However, after 10+ years of playing on this piano (This is my personal piano), sugar-coating ain't cutting it anymore.? The hammers sound ear-piercing.?I side needled the area just in front?of the wood core, but this only alleviated the ear piercing sound a little.?These hammers were?packed hard?too!??Is Yamaha?hammer quality the problem? ?What am I doing wrong? ...or aren't I needling enough?? 

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Thanks

Julia Gottshall

Reading, PA?




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