casino tunings

[Fenton Murray]

Now I don't know much about casinos, but I'd be shocked if they listened to any kind of reason other than: floor space divided by slots=$$$, ding, ding, people get excited, more slots, more $. Loose money, sit in bar for a minute and look and listen to PSO. Hit ATM more slots, ding, ding, ding.
Fenton
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Willem Blees 
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 8:20 PM
  Subject: Re: casino tunings


  Richard

  If you're having difficulties tuning the piano, what kind of problems does the player have competing with this noise? Perhaps a word to management might get them to move the piano. Maybe you can explain to them that they paid for the piano, and are paying someone to play it. But if the piano is drowned out by the slots, they are not getting anything for their investment. 


  Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT
  Piano Tuner/Technician
  Honolulu, HI
  Author of 
  The Business of Piano Tuning
  available from Potter Press
  www.pianotuning.com


  -----Original Message-----
  From: richard.ucci at att.net
  To: pianotech at ptg.org
  Sent: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 4:21 pm
  Subject: casino tunings


  Hi folks,
  One of my casino accounts just put a Yamaha gc-1 in a lounge just off the casino floor this week.
  It's right next to a bank of slots that is creating a c-6 ding ding ding ding non stop.

  I've dealt with this stuff for years , but this is an impossible situation. So impossible ,that I went out and got some noise canceling headphones (Radio Shack) with a little battery operated pickup . Worked fairly well , but has a bit of a learning curve as to where to place the pickup. It still picks up the slots to some extent, and makes the piano sound kind of like a cp-80, but at least I can hear more than I was before. 

  Cost about $110 but it's a $20k a yr contract.
  RU/UP


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