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DIGITAL PIANO VOICING
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What is piano voicing?
Piano
voicing consists in giving the piano a "nice" sound. What nice means depends
of course on the pianist or the listener. This task is done by the piano tuner
who acts:
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essentially
on the hammers by filing (shaping), softening or hardening them, in order
to obtain a mellow sound when playing softly, and a bright sound when playing
strongly,
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but
also on the piano action, by adjusting it in order to obtain even touch
and sound from one note to another,
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and
not to forget the piano tuning itself, because the way each unison is tuned
has a great influence on how the sound develops and decays, that is, on how
the piano sings. Most unisons consist in three strings very closely tuned.
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