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<div>Thanks for the advice, David. The pitch raise was about 30 cents, with some as flat as 50 c at the top, and given the fact that it was a new piano(second tuning about 6 months past recommended service time), some string rendering was necessary on the first pass, thus the hard blows. Second pass was quieter, and easier, but still echoing. When it was over, it sounded good, but was I happy to be done with it!<SPAN contentEditable=false style="DISPLAY: inline-block"></SPAN></div>
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From: david@davidandersenpianos.com<br>
To: pianotech@ptg.org<br>
Sent: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 2:29 PM<br>
Subject: Re: reverberation off of hard surfaces, not unlike false beats<br>
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<div class=AOLPlainTextBody id=AOLMsgPart_0_669dd7e4-6963-4be9-b8aa-085393a5d790>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. <br>
David Andersen <br>
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On Feb 21, 2007, at 7:40 AM, <A href='javascript:parent.ComposeTo("piannaman%40aol.com", "");'>piannaman@aol.com</A> wrote: <br>
> 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. <br>
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