[CAUT] How long is too long?

[tnrwim at aol.com]

Paul

After two hours the ears and mind get tired of concentrating too much on one particular thing. I would suggest you put the instrument to bed for a day or two, and then take another shot at it. 

Wim




-----Original Message-----
From: Paul T Williams <pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu>
To: CAUTlist <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Tue, Oct 19, 2010 10:51 am
Subject: [CAUT] How long is too long?


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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