Amen to that Andrew. I service a lot of pianos in retirement communities here in Florida. Folks often like it around 85+ degrees. When it is 95 in the shade and I walk up to the house and all the windows are open.......
Anyway, if the fans are not on, I turn them on. I just tuned a little Cable-Nelson console yesterday in a hot-house. Fans whirling out a great beat. I hear the beating clearly, but somehow I've learned to be able to simply put it on another channel - I can tune right through it, doesn't bother me a bit. It is certainly better than dripping in sweat during the tuning!
When people do have fans on I also be sure to mention to them about the fan thing - i.e., if the piano has been sounding just fine and then one day it suddenly sounds real bad - try turning the fan off to see if the "bad" goes away.
Terry Farrell
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Here in south Texas that is more of a problem. I'm always turning off ceiling fans. But the problem doesn't stop here. The noise coming out of the air-conditioner ducts is a harmonic as well. It is too hot here to turn that off so I grin and bear it. When the whole note blooms around the beat, you know you're there.
Andrew Anderson, Artisan Piano
At 09:01 AM 8/3/2007, you wrote:
I'm kind of amazed that I've never been in this situation before, but I found myself there twice yesterday.
As I started tuning a brand new Kawai RX5 (6 1/2 foot grand), I noticed that A4, despite being strip muted, was beating rapidly. I played several other notes and heard the same thing, and the beat speeds were all the same. I finally looked overhead and saw a ceiling fan rotating rapidly (and quietly, I might add!). I turned off the fan and they were gone. This was the first piano I ever remember tuning that was directly under a fan. The deflection of the sound waves off the fan blades was quite annoying and distracting.
Next time you tune a piano that has notes that are beating for no apparent reason, look overhead and you might find your answer.
Dave Stahl
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