Ed, I've seen that Parthenon copy in Nashville, it's quite impressive. I can't remember - is it 1 : 1 scale? What a concept: "I could still hear the beating of a unison long after I had it tuned". That just ain't natural, Ed : ) That sounds like some kind of freaky thought experiment. Allen Wright London, UK On May 23, 2008, at 1:10 AM, A440A at aol.com wrote: > Allen writes: > > << 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. >> > > I once attempted to tune a Steinway D in the Parthenon, (here in > Nashville we > have an exact replica of the original, and ours is better than the > original > 'cause it hasn't fallen apart). > The entire interior is marble and concrete, and it is huge. > Reverb is > approx 15 seconds, which meant that I could still hear the beating > of a unison > long after I had it tuned,(with a SAT). It would have been > impossible to do it > aurally, and I told the pianist that was playing later to forget > about using > the damper pedal. > Worst tuning environment I have ever had, (that includes years of rock > concert tuning). > Regards, > > > > Ed Foote RPT > http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html > www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html > <BR><BR><BR>**************<BR>Get trade secrets for amazing > burgers. Watch > "Cooking with Tyler Florence" on AOL Food.<BR> > (http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4&? > NCID=aolfod00030000000002)</HTML> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080523/b0784191/attachment.html
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