![]() ![]() Yes, it could involve many other procedures but voicing is more commonly referred to as an immediate alteration to the wool hammers to produce a different tone. So how does this process happen? How does one change the sound of a piano? To answer that, we need to think of what parts can be altered readily on a piano? Voicing predominantly involves altering the strike point of the hammer as it touches the strings. It takes a trained ear and substantial skill to play notes quickly in succession and level the audible high spots which are strident and bring up the low notes to match the others. When I was in Hailun and Petrof factories last year, I took some time to watch factory workers whose jobs are solely voicing and tuning. To create an even performance at the piano, it must be voiced so that each note sounds similar to its neighbours, making transitions in a musical line seamless. Piano voicing involves manipulating the instrument to achieve a different audible result. ![]() In short, the fix for the protruding note is called piano voicing. These are common words many people use to describe the tone of a piano. Playing the note in isolation, it becomes apparent that this one note sounds sharper or “brassy”, bright or strident while the neighbouring notes sound warmer, mellower or darker. And when you play notes on the piano evenly in succession, it tricks our ears into thinking it’s monophonic (meaning “one sound” like the human voice).Īt times, however, I’ll be playing what I believe to be consistently when all of a sudden, one note sounds different than the rest. She taught me a lot about making simple technique musical. Do everything gradually.” It was an idea that I could visualize where each pearl had its own quality and it was up to me as a performer to use some sense of skill to match one note on the piano to the neighbouring note. ![]() If you want to get louder, do so by tapering each note a little louder, then a little softer. “Play it like a string of pearls ~ matched in color and size. What does it mean to have “even” tone? When I was 13, my piano teacher asked me to play a scale. Voicing serves 2 purposes: one is to alter and change the global sound of a piano and two, to make a piano sound even. So while it is true that there are inherent qualities of tone related to a brand, the subtleties vary significantly from piano to piano. All of these raw materials have anomalies and subsequently, no 2 pianos are the same. Why? At the core, the piano is comprised of natural products such as wood, felt, steel, leather and iron. While there is truth in that statement, pianos can sound vastly different from model to model and can vary from even piano to piano. ![]() When I was young I was slightly misguided in thinking that every piano brand had a signature sound. It is this subject I’d like to delve into a little deeper. The third definition however, refers to the technical aspect of manipulating the tone of the piano. You voice the melody to be more audible than the rest of the notes you’re playing. The second meaning, as it refers to piano playing and pedagogy means making the melody line stand above the accompaniment. The first meaning of voicing refers to chord voicing which denotes how you spread out the notes of a chord on the piano (quite often in the jazz idiom). I had the full intention of writing a blog on piano voicing and then suddenly realized that there are 3 completely valid meanings to piano voicing. ![]()
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