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Voicing

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    Voicing

    Just listened to a broadcast on NPR of Yuja Wang/ Tchiakovsky 1st from Paris. Gteat pianistics marred by bad voicing, out-of-tune unisons and bad recording. Piano was also weak on top. Disease of lacquer may have migrated across ...

  • Please join us on Saturday, February 8 for a technical on voicing by Maria Pollock, RPT, of Chicago, Illinois. Fee is $50 for the all day seminar. 9:00-4:00 560 Music Center on the U City campus of Washington University ...

Harpsichord

  • It will stain. I know... Jim Sent from my iPhone

  • The key to stopping the shim from pushing down into the hole is one drop of CA left to dry for a couple minutes or so. Sent from my iPhone

  • Yes, those supposedly tapered pins that came in Zuckermann kit instruments. They are very problematic, and tapping is not very helpful. I have an instrument that had them, and I simply drilled out the holes and put in zither pins. ...

  • Perhaps I misunderstood Ed. These smooth pins are tapered for the bottom few millimeters, but not along their entire length. ------------------------------ Alan Eder, RPT Herb Alpert School of Music California Institute of the Arts ...