Here are most of his markings. Really quick, very easy and intuitive. He has already done whatever low shoulder voicing for volume and body (what he calls "texture") that he is going to do. So he uses these marks to indicate string-by-string where the stringy, pingy strings are for high shoulder needling (almost on the strike point) with his 5-needle voicer. He moves fast as he works with the felt mute to isolate strings for pings. As I watched and listened he skipped over some notes that at first sounded to me like they needed work, but on further listening these were notes that were hammer/string fitting problems rather than pingy, metallic problems. He didn't make any marks for these fitting problems because he knew he'd take care of them later. Alan -- Alan McCoy, RPT Eastern Washington University amccoy at ewu.edu 509-359-4627 (message Pacific time) 509-999-9512 (cell Pacific time) ________________________________ From: David Stocker <firtreepiano at hotmail.com> Reply-To: CAUTlist <caut at ptg.org> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:46:15 -0700 To: CAUTlist <caut at ptg.org> Subject: [CAUT] Piano Cuniform One of the first things Ulrich did after pulling the action and placing it atop another piano (covered) was to take off the keystop rail, and sand the top of it. He said something about liking everything to look clean. At that moment it seemed extreme, but it turned out that was exactly where he made all of these marks. At the end of every pass of voicing, he would run his first finger and thumb over the keystop rail to erase all of the markings. Because he had made it smooth, it came clean easily. I think he made marks on the front of the rail to denote needling lower on the hammer, towards the top for higher up on the shoulder. David Stocker, RPT Tumwater, WA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100318/9d4a2b4e/attachment-0001.htm> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: VoicingCuneiform.doc Type: application/octet-stream Size: 74240 bytes Desc: VoicingCuneiform.doc URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100318/9d4a2b4e/attachment-0001.obj>
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