Voicing Book Goes Global
André Oorebeek's acclaimed hammer voicing book “The Voice of the Piano” is
attracting overseas attention. The book with its companion DVD was originally
published in Canada in 2009 by Crescendo Publications, the book division of
Piano Forte Supply. The book is now being translated into French and Japanese.
“Foreign language licensing negotiations had been going on for some time,”
publisher Jurgen Goering disclosed. “We are now happy to announce the imminent
publication of both a French and Japanese language edition.”
The French edition, called “Le Voix du Piano” was translated by Marc Valdeyron
and will be published in conjunction with ITEMM, the French piano technician
training center in Paris. Valdeyron is the translator of Art Reblitz's “Piano
Tuning, Repairing and Servicing” and is a piano technician in his own right.
The book has already gone to print and will be later in 2011.
The Japanese translation was taken on by Yoshitake Suzuki, Director at Yamaha
USA's Piano Service Department. Suzuki and Oorebeek have a common history going
back to the 1980's. They first met at the Yamaha Piano Academy where they underwent
the rigours of that training program together.
André Oorebeck has taught extremely successful full day seminars on voicing
at the past three Annual Piano Technician's Guild conventions. After the most
recent seminar in Kansas City in July of 2011, the author and his two friends,
the translator of the Japanese version and the publisher of the English version,
met to celebrate the success of the book.
“The Voice of the Piano” has been distributed into well over 20 countries
in the English version, according to the publisher, Jurgen Goering. These two
foreign language translations not only open up new markets for the book and
DVD, they confirm the value and importance of the material presented by Oorebeek.
“We are thrilled by these developments which will allow more piano technicians
around the world to enhance their voicing skills,” says Goering.
The photo shows Yoshitake Suzuki, André Oorebeek and Jurgen Goering at the
2011 Kansas City Annual Piano Technicians Guild convention.
