lo-o-o-ong sustain

[Conrad Hoffsommer]

A440A at aol.com wrote:
> Allen  writes:
> 
> << 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.   >>
> 
> I once attempted to tune a Steinway D in the Parthenon, (here in Nashville we 
> have an exact replica of the original, and ours is better than the original 
> 'cause it hasn't fallen apart).  
>    The entire interior is marble and concrete, and it is huge.  Reverb is 
> approx 15 seconds, which meant that I could still hear the beating of a unison 
> long after I had it tuned,(with a SAT).  It would have been impossible to do it 
> aurally, and I told the pianist that was playing later to forget about using 
> the damper pedal.  
> Worst tuning environment I have ever had, (that includes years of rock 
> concert tuning). 
> Regards, 
> 
> 
> 
> Ed Foote RPT 


Ed,

At least you had a piano to try to tune. Try a spinet PSO in an airplane 
hanger big enough for a couple C5A transports. It _did_, however, seem 
to help with the normal nanosecond sustain of the top octave...


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