[CAUT] Piano Cuneiform

[David Ilvedson]

Alan,

Do you remember how much time spent on the low shoulder voicing?   That is a particular interest to me.   

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "McCoy, Alan" <amccoy at ewu.edu>
To: caut at ptg.org
Received: 3/18/2010 10:02:32 AM
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
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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