lo-o-o-ong sustain

[Allen Wright]

thanks for the reminder, David; I have a pair of musicians plugs (-9  
db reduction filters for piano work, and -25 db for loud concerts,  
riding the tube, reading a book over lunch in noisy cafes, etc.) but  
I had stopped using them at some point for piano work. I should start  
using them again.

Allen
On May 23, 2008, at 1:49 AM, David Love wrote:

> 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
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> 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).
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>> 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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Allen Wright
London, UK

http://www.broadjam.com/akwright




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