This afternoon I discovered a great side effect to ear protection. The piano was a Kohler-Have-I-Got-Some-Notes-For-You-Campbell studio. To say this piano has false beats is an understatement. In my records, I have it flagged as requiring more time, due to -trying- to match unisons. I would prefer to tune this piano first (it's in a university) to get it over with. However, it's so frustrating to tune, it burns me out for subsequent tunings, so I tend to do it last. Today I used ear plugs, and found that the beating phenomenon of the treble section was considerably reduced; well, at least on my side of the ear plugs. Did the piano sound any better? Maybe, but probably not. I just know that it wasn't as hard to tune, things went faster, and I wasn't brain-dead afterwards. Most importantly, a test of a couple unisons afterwards (without ear plugs) indicated that I could not improve upon those notes. FWIW Jim Harvey, RPT Greenwood, SC harvey@greenwood.net ________________________ -- someone who's been in the field too long.
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