[CAUT] How long is too long?

[Susan Kline]

  I prefer to voice in short sessions, preferably with people performing 
or practicing some in between. I particularly like being able to hear 
the piano in the concert hall in between, so I can see what is really 
coming out instead of just how the piano sounds when I'm right in front 
of it.

I think I end up with better results from several short sessions, plus 
it's a lot less stressing to know I'll have plenty of opportunities to 
go over things again later. Besides, voicing is constantly changing as 
the piano is in use.

Of course you have to voice more thoroughly with new hammers, but even 
there I wouldn't want to do it all at once, if the people playing on it 
can be educated/persuaded to put up with voicing as a process instead of 
an event.

Susan Kline

On 10/19/2010 1:51 PM, Paul T Williams wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been working tons on the D with the Steinway hammers that we 
> previously blogged about last week.  Regulation went flawlessly and 
> plays like a dream after a full day of fine regulating in the piano 
> after bench regulation as far as I wanted to go.
>
> Now, I've gotten into the voicing.  Just a bit yesterday after 
> regulating everything in the piano, so I basically just listened to 
> the overall and  juiced the top two octaves and the bottom 7 or 8 bass 
> notes for bite and let it go at that.
>
> Today, the top is still very weak and the bass is pretty nice.  I 
> spent 4 hours in the middle and "middle" killer area and got a tone 
> quality that I think will be quite nice.  However, after 4 straight 
> hours of poking, listening, poking, listening, poking and listening, I 
> couldn't tell any longer what I was listening to.  Have you all run 
> into this situation?
>
> How long will you sit and voice at one sitting? I even took a break, 
> plugged in a Rubenstein CD, checked out the Lied Center's D (that 
> Steve Schmidt worked on last year)...just to give me reference, but on 
> the 4th hour, I had to knock it off, juiced the top section a second 
> time and called it a day on that.
>
> Thanks for inputs.
>
> Paul

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