Another Tough Tuning Environment

[Thomas Cole]

Jurgen,

I had the same thought back when I was first doing floor tunings. I 
bought a contact mic which I fastened to the soundboard with some kind 
of adhesive putty and connected it to amplified headphones.

It turned out to be a bad idea because the soundboard itself acted as a 
microphone and picked up all the room noise I was trying to screen out, 
so I gave up on it.

Maybe if the mic could be attached to the plate or something less 
affected by ambient noise.

Tom Cole

Jurgen Goering wrote:

>
> I met a german tech who spent one night tuning about 10 pianos for the 
> opening of the Frankfurt Musikmesse. Same scenario. He is an aural 
> tuner, and a bright one. He had a little contact microphone which he 
> placed on the soundboard, then ran it through a tiny amp the size of 
> an iPod, and to earphones from there. It allowed him to tune aurally 
> in an environment where an ETD is usually a must.
> I was thinking of bringing these units onto the market, but up to now 
> it has just remained one of many projects on the back burner...
>
>
> Jurgen Goering
> Piano Forte Supply
> (250) 754-2440
> info at pianofortesupply.com
> http://www.pianofortesupply.com
>
>
> On Jan 15, 2007, at 16:20, pianotech-request at ptg.org wrote:
>
>
>     Well, I thought I would include another short sound clip from a
>     tough tuning location.
>
>     NAMM show is this week!
>
>     Don Mannino<NAMM Begins.mp3>
>
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