[CAUT] How long is too long?

[Brent Fischer]

Fred,      Yes, two hours and then have the Bud Light ready, preferably on salted ice.
--- On Tue, 10/19/10, Fred Sturm <fssturm at unm.edu> wrote:

From: Fred Sturm <fssturm at unm.edu>
Subject: Re: [CAUT] How long is too long?
To: caut at ptg.org
Date: Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 2:52 PM

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 Sturmfssturm 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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