When I'm in a situation like that I try to tune as quietly as is practical..that helps with the echo, but not with the chairs, etc...;-] David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: "Allen Wright" <akwright at btopenworld.com> To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org> Received: 5/22/2008 3:46:24 PM Subject: lo-o-o-ong sustain >I have to say: I've tuned in some rooms with a lot of reverb before, >but this one takes the cake (see below); the reverb time must have >been 5 seconds (probably more - I only had 30 minutes to tune, so not >a lot of time to get out the stopwatch : ) No doubt many of you >have tuned in museums before, and know what the experience is like. >This room sounds like a small cathedral - note the size of the guy >down at the end of the room. That gives an idea of scale, and is >where the stage was - under the dome! (Igor Levitt with the English >Chamber Orchestra). >http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/paintings/galleries/48a/index.html >What with the chaos of chairs being setup (locked together in some >noisy fashion) and a guy going around with some kind of compression >gun, stapling the the stage floor together, I was really glad to have >my ETD to help clean up unisons (especially in the treble). With that >kind of reverb, bad unisons can get smoothed over and hard to hear. >Allen Wright >London, UK
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