Another Tough Tuning Environment

[Dean May]

Barcus-Berry makes a mic that attaches to the soundboard. It is not a
magnetic pickup. It picks up the acoustic planer sound wave coming off the
soundboard and nothing else, not even a drum set right next to the piano. 

 

Dean

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From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Leslie Bartlett
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 9:24 AM
To: tcole at cruzio.com; 'Pianotech List'
Subject: RE: Another Tough Tuning Environment

 

There's a magnetic pickup which attaches to the plate and doesn't pick up
all the surrounding noise.

les bartlett

 

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From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Thomas Cole
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 10:53 PM
To: Pianotech List
Subject: Re: Another Tough Tuning Environment

Jurgen,

I had the same thought back when I was first doing floor tunings. I bought a
contact mic which I fastened to the soundboard with some kind of adhesive
putty and connected it to amplified headphones. 

It turned out to be a bad idea because the soundboard itself acted as a
microphone and picked up all the room noise I was trying to screen out, so I
gave up on it.

Maybe if the mic could be attached to the plate or something less affected
by ambient noise.

Tom Cole

Jurgen Goering wrote:




I met a german tech who spent one night tuning about 10 pianos for the
opening of the Frankfurt Musikmesse. Same scenario. He is an aural tuner,
and a bright one. He had a little contact microphone which he placed on the
soundboard, then ran it through a tiny amp the size of an iPod, and to
earphones from there. It allowed him to tune aurally in an environment where
an ETD is usually a must. 
I was thinking of bringing these units onto the market, but up to now it has
just remained one of many projects on the back burner... 


Jurgen Goering 
Piano Forte Supply 
(250) 754-2440 
info at pianofortesupply.com 
http://www.pianofortesupply.com 


On Jan 15, 2007, at 16:20, pianotech-request at ptg.org wrote: 


Well, I thought I would include another short sound clip from a tough tuning
location. 

NAMM show is this week! 

Don Mannino<NAMM Begins.mp3> 

 

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