This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment MessageI am learning to tune aurally, although I use an ETD (Sanderson = Accutuner III) to check the accuracy of my tuning and to speed things = up a bit. I find it difficult to hear the beats (particlularly the slow = beating 4ths and 5ths) even in the quiet environment of my own home on = my well scaled Yamaha grand piano, because they seem to be so weak. Will = your ears eventually become more accustomed to hearing beats? I have = been doing this for months and the beats still sound very feeble, = although when I move my head around the piano they become slightly more = perceptible. I can't imagine what it must be like to have to tune a = piano in the noisy environments that you describe.=20 Robert Finley ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Geoff Sykes=20 To: tune4u@earthlink.net ; 'Pianotech List'=20 Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 12:51 AM Subject: RE: tuning environment I had the opportunity to tune four pianos at NAMM last year. Ever try = to tune in a very large convention center full of pianos all being tuned = at the same time? Complete chaos and cacophony would have been quieter. = Especially when you find yourself working on the same note at the same = time as one or two other techs in the same room. And you know what? It = was a fascinating high energy learning experience and I'd gladly do it = again.=20 -- Geoff Sykes -- Assoc. Los Angeles -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] = On Behalf Of Alan Barnard Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 6:47 PM To: Pianotech List Subject: RE: tuning environment Stick around awhile and you'll experience some tuning environments = that'll make noisy nursing homes seem like a nap on the beach. Lawn mowers, vacuums, screeching 2-year-olds, clocks!!!, loud air = conditioners and furnaces, televisions, and (at Fort Leonard Wood) the = not-so-distant sound of small arms, tank shells, and the engineers = blowing up stuff ... kabooM! ... the fun just keeps on coming. One that was a challenge: Junior high school tuning Hamilton on = stage in gym/auditorium with concrete floor and cinder block walls, boys = basketball team shows up and they each grab a ball and start bouncing, = shooting, shouting, laughing and the SHOES ... sqeak squirk eek scree. I = couldn't complain because I'd gotten held up and was an hour late when I = started. And the number one most obnoxious sound? Someone else tuning another = piano in the background.=20 Alan Barnard Salem, Missouri ----- Original Message -----=20 From:=20 To: Pianotech List Sent: 02/03/2006 6:37:02 PM=20 Subject: tuning environment Hi Everyone, I know it's not a technical question per sae, but I like hearing = about other technician's experiences. What has been yoru worst tuning = environment? Today I tuned a piano at a nursing home, an Acrosonic. = The people were great, but it always throws me off when someone comesup = and asks me a question such as, "Have you found that lost chord yet." I = was making sure my thirds matched up evenly. It was great, and I = scheduled them for their next tuning already plus one of the employees = there scheduled me to tune her piano in two weeks. It was a great = experience, but it's hard to tune with lots of background activity. = What do you guys do in that situation, besides make the best of it.?:) =20 Marshall ps. It was a great tuning all around however, plus they offered me = lunch! Awesome chili and corn bread. =20 -------------- Original message --------------=20 From: Susan Kline <skline@peak.org>=20 > At 03:57 PM 2/3/2006 -0800, Horace wrote:=20 > >Actually that has been done a number of times. When I was = more active in=20 > >institutional work, I used to do it for demonstration = purposes...it does=20 > >get folks' attention.=20 >=20 > I'm sure it does!=20 >=20 > >Also, I know specifically of one major contemporary venue in = which this=20 > >was done to the primary concert instrument...no, the = technician who did it=20 > >is no longer employed there.=20 >=20 > Ready for a different sort of institution, I would guess ... = well, there is=20 > more than one way to tell an employer to "take this job and = shove it."=20 >=20 > sssssssssnn=20 >=20 >=20 > _______________________________________________=20 >! ;! ; Pianotech list info: = https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/b7/89/2a/74/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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