Harpuia I’ve been following your grand piano search & regulation threads for years
Hi, so nice to see you here!! The piano progress felt like it would never end, and I'm sure it felt like that to the folks who were following as well 😆 The latest is that my tech may have been forced into early retirement and I found a new guy; we're working together to figure out a tuning that sounds good on my piano since my old tech is out of commission. The new guy is extremely meticulous and seems to be pretty good at voicing so once we voice down the new hammers more I think I may finally be done with the ongoing work (until it needs more due to normal use). Oh good heavens, I just realized I got the piano in 2015. It's been nine years of trying to get it fixed up!!
Harpuia It’s nice that you have 3 string players to work with. I noticed a chamber music festival that is at Tacoma, WA. I haven’t been there though so I don’t have any first-hand experience, but maybe this is sth that you’ll be interested in?
I have three string players at the workshop, but not here! I would really love to have a (good) group here but maybe it's for the best, I already had a hard enough time with my violinist friend when we disagreed on stuff (and we were mostly on the same page) and adding two more possibly opinionated people into the mix wouldn't be fun. The workshop is coached so we'll all just follow the coach's lead 🙂 Aside from having the best time there last year, I think it's a really good fit for me to work on something to a high level over a long time, but then also have the opportunity to be "done" and be able to put it away after that. Otherwise I just keep working on stuff forever. Also as you can see right now, having a deadline is very motivating.
Are you in the Seattle area? Unfortunately the Tacoma program looks like it's for students only. Portland actually has a very good chamber music summer festival (a series of performances); I'll miss the first two weeks but have pencilled in a bunch of performances for when I get back!
Harpuia Are 26 days the time you have before performance, or before the first rehearsal? If you do plan to perform, the rehearsal might take time.
26 days before I leave town, then the workshop is for a week. Last year we worked on one movement a day, picked one to perform, and then had 1.5 more days to work on it before the final concert (the audience is the other attendees, so it's low pressure). I feel like I have so much work ahead of me still, but the progress I see with every practice session is heartening.
