[CAUT] How long is too long?

[Paul T Williams]

That would be in a perfect world!  The piano is being used on Saturday. 
Now that fall break is over, I have until noon today, then just a couple 
hours on Thursday morning and Friday morning.  It should work. (unless it 
doesn't!)  Worse case scenario would be that they have to use the Baldwin 
D on Saturday, but it's a fine piano and these aren't piano majors 
performing, just accompanying.  Paul




From:
tnrwim at aol.com
To:
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Date:
10/19/2010 07:55 PM
Subject:
Re: [CAUT] How long is too long?



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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