Dear Waren, Yes ythe top treble is where I fall down as well, I tend to hit the notes a little faster and softer and then use a test blow to check for stability. However, £1500.00 does sound a lot of money to cure a minor irritation Barrie. In article <33054B80.4B66@communique.net>, Warren Fisher <fish@communique.net> writes >Barrie Heaton wrote: >> >> Dear Waren, >> >> Have not got a sat to lend you but have a query. >> >> I was tuning in a church to-day which has a nice echo, how dose a SAt >> cope with echo or do they not effect them. >> >> Barrie, >> >WHAT ECHO....what echo....echo..echo...echooooooo! > >It doesn't effect it. What you see is a strong pattern for the piano >and some flickering background from the echo. It has a volume sensitivy >circuit and picks the strongest source for its pattern. One thing it >does do occasionaly, is if you have equally strong back and front waves >like you get with a grand with its' lid up or an upright lid propped >over the SAT the two waves will hit the microphone simultaneously and >cancel each other out so you don't get a strong pattern. In that case, >moving or rotating the SAT to point the mike in a different direction >cures it. I've tuned several pianos in bars (pub to you) with all the >rowdies talking at the tops of their voices and still gotten a fair to >middlin' tuning done. I just stick foam ear plugs in and let them have >at it. I tune each individual string in sequence, 1 to 88 and when I >finish, I tell them to "pipe down so I can finish this thing" and go >through quickly knocking in any thing that has wandered in about ten >minutes. Most places will cool it that long. I've got several chuches >with very good echoes, but the only problems I have are trying to tune >the upper register unisons aurally like I normally do. I just switch >over to the SAT and finish up. > >Hope this helps! > >Warren -- Barrie Heaton | Be Environmentally Friendly URL: http://www.airtime.co.uk/forte/piano.htm | To Your Neighbour The UK PIano Page | pgp key on request | HAVE YOUR PIANO TUNED
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