FAN blowing

[Carl Teplitski]

Have a piano in a church room where sunday school taught. Very poor consol. This
not being the worst part of the problem. Right next to the piano is a built in
heat/ac duct running up the wall.
When the air is blowing it produces a high pitched signal about 10k  which
really interferes with what I hear. Nothing sounds good.  Usually I have the
custodian turn the unit off for a little time.
Do my thing and run. A have a key for this place and let myself in. At these
times I can't turn the unit off, and it's quite a chore to effect a decent
tuning, for both reasons stated earlier. Maybe
if I tuned in this kind of place a lot, I would get better at it, but it's the
only one that is this severe. Can't imagine having to work like this all day
long. I'd become a blithering idiot. Maybe I am, now??  Good for you factory
guys, you must do a really good job when conditions are ideal, like in a private
home .  Do you ??

Carl/Winnipeg

"Benny L. Tucker" wrote:

>     Actually, You'd be surprised at what you can learn to ignore while
> tuning. For instance, most of us tuners at the plant can tune darn good
> unisons with a fan blowing, an air hose blowing a piano off right behind
> you, a shop vac cleaning the sawdust out of another one, another tuner in
> either or both booths beside you "not soundproof", and still manage to carry
> on a conversation with another tuner all at the same time.
>     I guess it's just what you get used to!!
>
> Benny L. Tucker
> Yamaha Factory Tuner
> Precision Piano Tuning & Repair
> Thomaston, Ga.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marcel Carey" <mcpiano@globetrotter.net>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 12:03 PM
> Subject: FAN (was: clothing)
>
> > I would seriously hesitate to use a fan because it makes tuning
> > impossible. You will get oscillating unisons and the voicing will seem
> > pretty strange not to say the least. Unless the fan is only used while
> > doing regulation or repairs work.
> >
> > Marcel Carey, RPT
> > Sherbrooke,QC
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-pianotech@ptg.org
> > > [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]On Behalf
> > > Of Clyde Hollinger
> > > Sent: 23 juin, 2002 07:57
> > > To: pianotech@ptg.org
> > > Subject: Re: clothing
> > >
> > >
> > > When summer weather approaches here (PA), I keep an
> > > electric 12" fan in my car.  It goes into the house with me
> > > if it's too warm and there is no air conditioning.  Yes, I
> > > know it may look a little dorky, but I've never had anyone
> > > object, and I really do not want to arrive
> > > at my last appointment looking and feeling like a smelly
> > > rung-out rag.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Clyde Hollinger, RPT
> > > Lititz, PA, USA
> > >
> > > Farrell wrote:
> > >
> > > > All right, now you just went a bit too far! I have two
> > > customers that do not have air conditioning. When they call
> > > me to tune in July, I warn them first, and then I show up
> > > in a tank top and shorts!!!!!  (Those are the only ones
> > > though - the others get a polo shirt!).
> > > >
> > > > Terry Farrell
> > >
> > >
> >
> >