[CAUT] Piano Cuneiform

[Greg Newell]

Thanks Alan. Looks like a good, easy to use system. I appreciate your work
in posting it. 

 

All the best,

 

Greg Newell

Greg's Piano Forté

www.gregspianoforte.com

216-226-3791 (office)

216-470-8634 (mobile)

 

From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of McCoy,
Alan
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 1:03 PM
To: CAUTlist
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Piano Cuneiform

 

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)



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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



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