Whistle while you work, was, Re: Professional identity

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A whistle, like a flute or piccolo, is a fairly pure sine wave that really
punches through other sounds.

That's why you only need one piccolo in a huge marching band outdoors and
everyone can still hear it, unlike say a clarinet which has a complex sound
and you have to have dozens of them before you even notice they are playing.

That's my theory, anyway, because I have also noticed that whistling is one
of the hardest sounds to tune through. Also crying babies, shrieking
children, and &$%#* chiming clocks.

Alan Barnard
Salem, MO
  -----Original Message-----
  From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On
Behalf Of Wimblees@aol.com
  Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 5:52 AM
  To: pianotech@ptg.org
  Subject: Whistle while you work, was, Re: Professional identity


  In a message dated 3/20/03 10:35:44 AM !!!First Boot!!!, wmaxim@sc.rr.com
writes:


    I miss the organist (now retired) whose habit was to whistle as he
busied
    himself in the choir room.  With me tuning the piano.  "I whistle while
you
    work" motto?




  I was tuning for a theater while the crew was still working on the set. I
was able to deal with the general noise, including some hammering, but I was
really bother by one guy who was whistling. He was very loud, but he wasn't
very good. I finally asked him to stop, so I could tune. When I did this,
the other crew members let out a cheer. I found out that they had been
asking this guy to stop whistling for years, but the guy just had a habit of
whistling, and he couldn't stop. The crew was ready to pay me extra to stay
longer, just to not hear the whistling.

  Wim

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