lo-o-o-ong sustain

[Allen Wright]

David,

That makes good sense, but quiet wasn't really an option in this  
situation. There were probably 30 people milling about, making their  
own particular noises. Thankfully, the piano arrived in fairly good  
shape from Steinway C & A.

Allen

On May 23, 2008, at 1:25 AM, David Ilvedson wrote:

> 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
>
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>> 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
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>> 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
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