thanks for the reminder, David; I have a pair of musicians plugs (-9 db reduction filters for piano work, and -25 db for loud concerts, riding the tube, reading a book over lunch in noisy cafes, etc.) but I had stopped using them at some point for piano work. I should start using them again. Allen On May 23, 2008, at 1:49 AM, David Love wrote: > In high reverb situations, like churches, earplugs (musician filter > types) > are the only way to go. They will remove most if not all of the > echoing > interference but allow you to hear what you need to for tuning. > > David Love > davidlovepianos at comcast.net > www.davidlovepianos.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] > On Behalf > Of David Ilvedson > Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 5:26 PM > To: pianotech at ptg.org > Subject: RE: lo-o-o-ong sustain > > 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 > > > > > > > Allen Wright London, UK http://www.broadjam.com/akwright -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080523/3c526a24/attachment-0001.html
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