Dance floor, anyone?

[Nichols]

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Barbara,
    A common sales technique, especially for player pianos, is to place a 
mirror on the floor. It's kinda cool, and seems to reflect sound well, 
also. Just the occasional problem with some female customer's attire. Not 
cool. Point is, it might be a lot cheaper to try a mirror, or piece of 
tempered hardboard, even. (wooo.... there may be a cosmic connection with 
"tempered" hardboard.... better just call it Masonite) %^)

G'dluck,
Guy

At 03:49 PM 9/27/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Well, I hate to sound like a broken record, but I'm still thinking of 
>possibilities for the huge (3500 seat) auditorium with the lousy 
>acoustics.   The floor of the stage isn't hardwood, but something 
>definitely softer (yet another sound sucker upper).  I have yet to get the 
>piano (Steinway D) on stage, since it's stored in the basement and don't 
>want to haul it up until I have it in reasonable working order.  Although 
>I have gotten the director to agree that the piano will be amplified for 
>performances (yea!), I was wondering about what the pianists can hear of 
>themselves, because in spite of being amplified, they tend to "attack" the 
>piano with every bit of might available.  Now I suppose a monitor of some 
>sorts could be rigged up (no problem for non-classical music) and we're 
>still going to give the lower lid and truck wedges a try, but has anyone 
>ever tried something like a portable dance floor?   Do you think it would 
>bounce the sound up for the pianist to hear?  Would the stage crew hate me 
>for suggesting it?  What's the estimate on how many dozens of homemade 
>cookies & brownies would it cost to win them over?  :-)
>
>Thanks,
>
>Barbara Richmond

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