Listening "too much"?

[Charly Tuner]

Bull's eye! Yes, as a matter of fact, I DID have..not only a ceiling fan on, 
directly ABOVE the piano, but also TWO floor fans running at the time. Never 
even considered that. Thanks! I thought I wa going crazy..but then again...

Terry


>From: Billbrpt@AOL.COM
>Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
>To: pianotech@ptg.org
>Subject: Re: Listening "too much"?
>Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 17:54:59 EDT
>
>In a message dated 7/1/00 4:40:44 PM Central Daylight Time,
>charly_tuner@hotmail.com (Charly Tuner) writes:
>
><< Maybe it's because i didn't get much sleep last night, but for some 
>weird
>  reason, this morning I noticed GLARING imperfections in unisons (on my 
>own
>  piano) that were beatless the night before, and when i attempted to  
>touch
>  them up, I found myself, seemingly, hearing all kinds of inharmonicites 
>and
>  false beats, no matter where i tested them! Then I muted all but one 
>string
>  and STILL heard beats in almost ALL tri/bi chords! Coils were tight, 
>strings
>  seated fine. Then I took a nap and when i woke up I immediately went to 
>the
>  piano and sat down and listened again...it sounded fine! Could it be that 
>my
>  hearing was compromised, or even "hyper" sensitive in my over-tired 
>state?
>  Very strange indeed.
>   >>
>
>Was there by any chance, a ceiling fan going nearby when you noticed this
>weird beating?  If there was, it will cause the very effects you describe.
>Here, in Southern Wisconsin, it can get rather warm in the Summertime and
>sometimes I have to make the decision about whether to turn that fan off or
>benefit by its cooling effects and try to disregard the tremolo effect it 
>has
>on piano tone.  I'll bet that ceiling fans are much more common and used 
>more
>than airconditioning where you live.
>
>If there was no fan, I don't have any explanation except that sometimes, 
>when
>the body is under great stress, the senses do go a bit haywire.  All it
>usually takes to recover is rest, hydration and nourishment.
>
>Regards,
>
>Bill Bremmer RPT
>Madison, Wisconsin

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