lo-o-o-ong sustain

[David Ilvedson]

When I'm in a situation like that I try to tune as quietly as is practical..that helps with the echo, but not with the chairs, etc...;-]   

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Allen Wright" <akwright at btopenworld.com>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Received: 5/22/2008 3:46:24 PM
Subject: lo-o-o-ong sustain


>I have to say: I've tuned in some rooms with a lot of reverb before,  
>but this one takes the cake (see below); the reverb time must have  
>been 5 seconds (probably more - I only had 30 minutes to tune, so not  
>a lot of time to get out the stopwatch : )    No doubt many of you  
>have tuned in museums before, and know what the experience is like.  
>This room sounds like a small cathedral - note the size of the guy  
>down at the end of the room. That gives an idea of scale, and is  
>where the stage was - under the dome! (Igor Levitt with the English  
>Chamber Orchestra).

>http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/paintings/galleries/48a/index.html

>What with the chaos of chairs being setup (locked together in some  
>noisy fashion) and a guy going around with some kind of compression  
>gun, stapling the the stage floor together, I was really glad to have  
>my ETD to help clean up unisons (especially in the treble). With that  
>kind of reverb, bad unisons can get smoothed over and hard to hear.

>Allen Wright
>London, UK