Hey Dave---next time, try tuning super-ultra softly, and "ordering" your body to listen near-field. You have to be adept, which I'm sure you are, at setting the pin without beating the shit out of the piano---1 Aikido-like test blow per string is good, if necessary--- and your ears, and being, are much less stresed and confused at the end. I've had "cavern tunings" for a while: a couple massive church sanctuaries and several castle-type private cribs. And even tuning soft and listening near-field, it's still hard and challenging. Which is cool. David Andersen On Feb 21, 2007, at 7:40 AM, piannaman at aol.com wrote: > Yesterday evening, I was tuning in a cavernous mansion with marble > tiled floors, cathedral ceilings, and no carpets, pictures or > tapestries to baffle the sound. Going through the upper two > octaves, it was extremely hard to differentiate between beating and > echoing. Then there was the "thwack" of the hammers that bounced > all over creation, not to mention the notes that really did have > "false" beats.
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