[CAUT] How long is too long?

[Fred Sturm]

Two hour chunks is what I try for. Preferably one in a day. I like to  
have a second day's perspective, better a third or more. My perception  
and judgment changes, not to mention the wear on the ears. You really  
need to be at your sharpest for voicing, where things like regulation  
and tuning are more forgiving. But sometimes you gotta do what you  
gotta do.
	I guess I might modify that to say that I will spend longer than that  
on pre-voicing work - shoulders - trying to be somewhat conservative  
with the needles, then another day come back and do finer work closer  
to the crown. But that doesn't apply so much to Steinway.

Regards,
Fred Sturm
fssturm at unm.edu
"I am only interested in music that is better than it can be played."  
Schnabel

On Oct 19, 2010, at 2:51 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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