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: caut at ptg.org 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20101020/6e41b57c/attachment.htm>
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