VOICING  -Beatiful tone from bass to treble-
 

Often times people confuse tuning (pitch and harmony) with tone (quality or timbre of the note). Voicing mainly deals with the latter.

 

A piano's strings are struck with parts called hammers.  Hammers are compressed felts wrapped around wooden hammer heads.  Over time, these felts get worn down or overly compressed from playing, and frequently used notes can start to sound ear-piercingly loud and bright.

 

Proper voicing will require listening to each note with key strikes in various volume. Once the voicing is done, you will be able to play each note from mellow and soft, to strong and powerful, with consistency throughout the keyboard from A0 to C8.  In other words, it will help you achieve great control of dynamics in your playing.

 

 

Is it bad for the piano if I don't get voicing done?

 

Inconsistent tone can prevent the player from developing the right playing technique, but it can also have bad effect on the piano itself.

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Hardened hammers means you are striking strings with more force while not getting an ideal sound out from it.  This leads to strings going out of tune much faster than it normally would, and you ending up playing a piano that has both bad tone and bad tuning... and it's just not fun playing piano like that. (Could possibly be the reason why your kids haven't touched their piano recently.)

 

Also, tip of a hammer will start to develop deep groove from the strings over time.  This will not only make your piano sound bad, but can damage piano's hammers from unnecessary side movement when striking strings.