At 09:57 AM 3/13/98 -0500, Clair wrote: >chapter) but I went to a Willie Nelson concert last night and want to tell >you what happened and ask for guesses: > >On stage was a Steinway grand on loan from the local symphony orchestra. ... >>From that point on, a total of three dif. people crawled under the piano >and,lying on their backs, fiddled with something on the bottom approx jsut >inside the area of the big curve (as seen from above). Each of the three >did this a number of times during the concert. And, you never could really >hear the piano--what on earth was going on? And even one time, it sounded >like a big toy piano. They were trying to fix a bad connection on some kind of microphone under the piano. From the description it would have been a PZM (pressure-zone microphone) or C-Tape, a sticky-tape contact microphone. If it sounded like a toy piano it was probably C-tape. John John Musselwhite, RPT - Calgary, Alberta Canada musselj@cadvision.com - http://www.cadvision.com/musselj/
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