----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph Garrett" <joegarrett@earthlink.net> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 7:25 PM Subject: Yamaha "S" Pianos vs. others Mark & Dale, IMHO we're dealing with an ever-increasing number of people that have a hearing loss, due to our VERY NOISY society. + You're not kidding! Music preferences aside ... but is anyone out there bothered by the ambient noise levels in airports, let alone on board planes? (Trains are so quiet on board.) So, to hear anything that resembles music above and beyond the noise, the volume control on the headphones on "personal entertainment systems" is cranked to full-bore. That being, recording studios have a distorted idea of what a piano is really supposed to sound like. So, we are subjected to improperly EQ'd recordings. + And concerts, I might add. Recently while I was touching up the tuning at a jazz festival, the soundman offered to turn UP the monitor next to the piano. Yikes and no thanks. The piano was plenty loud, brassy-shrill, best described as sounding like a cheap plastic toy without any amplification. I always have to wear musicians' earplugs when I'm tuning ... and at the concert. Methinks to many reformed Rock musicians have gotten tired of playing and are now in the studios, with their poor hearing! + Or these guys were the touring soundmen for these rock musicians, sitting in the house soundbooth and getting blasted front and center by those big banks of speakers night after night. Meanwhile, the audiences are conditioned to believe that the music isn't music unless it is loud beyond recognition. So, the cycle begins again, with home stereos cranked to full-bore .............. Just this guy's opinion. Flame suit properly adjusted. <grin> Regards, Joe Garrett, Oregon + Anyone know where I can get a ladies Size 12 Tall flamesuit? Z! Reinhardt RPT (still with dog-hearing) Ann Arbor MI diskladame@provide.net
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