no fan of overhead fans while tuning

[Joe And Penny Goss]

Must be goin deaf like me <g>
Joe Goss RPT
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Farrell 
  To: Pianotech List 
  Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 10:28 AM
  Subject: Re: no fan of overhead fans while tuning


  Amen to that Andrew. I service a lot of pianos in retirement communities here in Florida. Folks often like it around 85+ degrees. When it is 95 in the shade and I walk up to the house and all the windows are open.......

  Anyway, if the fans are not on, I turn them on. I just tuned a little Cable-Nelson console yesterday in a hot-house. Fans whirling out a great beat. I hear the beating clearly, but somehow I've learned to be able to simply put it on another channel - I can tune right through it, doesn't bother me a bit. It is certainly better than dripping in sweat during the tuning!

  When people do have fans on I also be sure to mention to them about the fan thing - i.e., if the piano has been sounding just fine and then one day it suddenly sounds real bad - try turning the fan off to see if the "bad" goes away.

  Terry Farrell
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    Here in south Texas that is more of a problem.  I'm always turning off ceiling fans.  But the problem doesn't stop here.  The noise coming out of the air-conditioner ducts is a harmonic as well.  It is too hot here to turn that off so I grin and bear it.  When the whole note blooms around the beat, you know you're there.

    Andrew Anderson, Artisan Piano

    At 09:01 AM 8/3/2007, you wrote:

      I'm kind of amazed that I've never been in this situation before, but I found myself there twice yesterday.

      As I started tuning a brand new Kawai RX5 (6 1/2 foot grand), I noticed that A4, despite being strip muted, was beating rapidly.  I played several other notes and heard the same thing, and the beat speeds were all the same.  I finally looked overhead and saw a ceiling fan rotating rapidly (and quietly, I might add!).  I turned off the fan and they were gone.  This was the first piano I ever remember tuning that was directly under a fan.  The deflection of the sound waves off the fan blades was quite annoying and distracting.

      Next time you tune a piano that has notes that are beating for no apparent reason, look overhead and you might find your answer.  

      Dave Stahl
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