Tuning experience

[Andrew & Rebeca Anderson]

That'd be why I was told to always insist on tuning a piano where it was to 
be performed on.  Was told it affects stretching considerably.  Was also 
advised to go out into the auditorium and assess your stretch while an 
assistant (yeah, everybody should have one ;-) ) played the piano where you 
needed to hear it.

FWIW
Andrew

At 08:26 PM 3/8/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>I was tuning a C7 in a  theatre pit (aboard a ship) today.  I was told it 
>was OK to tune as long as I didn't mind riding up and down on the pit 
>elevator. They were testing it.   "Sure, why not!"  What an eye-opener for 
>sound and temperature!  As I started tuning in the pit, the sound was 
>bouncing all over, real easy to hear, hitting me in the face, bouncing 
>around, but as the piano (and I) rose up into the cavernous theatre, the 
>sound magically disintegrated and strained to fill the room.  Shortly I 
>felt the wrap-around feeling of the cool air conditioning surrounding me 
>and the piano and subsequently saw the red-lights on the SAT starting to 
>run clockwise.  Then the elevator started downward and this phenomina was 
>repeated again in reverse. A couple of times doing this was a real 
>eye-opening experience in accoustics and piano stability.  FWIW.
>
>Phil Ryan
>Miami Beach
>
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