lo-o-o-ong sustain

[David Love]

In high reverb situations, like churches, earplugs (musician filter types)
are the only way to go.  They will remove most if not all of the echoing
interference but allow you to hear what you need to for tuning.  

David Love
davidlovepianos at comcast.net 
www.davidlovepianos.com

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of David Ilvedson
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 5:26 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: RE: lo-o-o-ong sustain

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