Decibel Levels

[Stephen Airy]

I'd like to know what a Bosendorfer Imperial with the lid open played as 
loud as possible (but no so loud you break the strings/hammers) in a medium 
sized living room (like 15 by 25 or something like that) would sound like.  :)

At 11:43 PM 12/29/00 -0600, you wrote:
>Bubba Ron,
>
>Having worked my way through school at the Radio Shack and played live high
>decibel music for too many years, I can guarantee that the meter is
>conservative even in peak to peak mode. Somewhere I have a reprint of an
>email from this list back when it was on the BYU server. Practice room grand
>high end can get up to 120db and it will damage your hearing. Those that
>have tuned without plugs for years are blessed by heredity, providence and a
>light touch on the keyboard.
>We use the foam plugs, not only because they are cheap but because they
>reduce the noise to less damaging levels. If you can learn to tune, you can
>learn to tune with ear plugs in. That is the experience of a male and female
>tech for over ten years now. Don't have the headaches that used to visit
>regularly. Will not tune without plugs ever again. Of course, won't play ZZ
>Top without plugs again either...well maybe just this one time....:)
>Off the soapbox now....no wait!!!
>
>GOT PLUGS!!!
>
>Dale
>Ward & Probst, Inc.
>Piano & Organ Service
>Dale Probst & Elizabeth Ward
>Registered Piano Technicians
>Wichita Falls, TX
>wardprobst@cst.net
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]On Behalf
>Of Ron Nossaman
>Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 10:39 PM
>To: pianotech@ptg.org
>Subject: Re: Decibel Levels
>
>
>About a month ago, I sprung a whole $35 for a decibel meter of sorts from
>Radio Shack. I thought it would be nice to be able to correlate decibel
>readings with personal pain level while tuning, as well as calibrating the
>FFT analyzer I'm writing to some semblance of real world sound levels. As
>it turns out, the FFT calibration turns out to be too relative to the sound
>system and microphone quality of the individual computer for the decibel
>correlation to be of much use, but I've been having some fun with the meter
>just taking readings in what seem to be relatively harmless situations.
>There aren't all that many ways to upset your ingrained complacency and
>unwarranted sense of safety and security with an investment of a mere $35.
>In the interest of consciousness elevation, the enhancement of creeping
>suspicion of discontent, and a general unsettling of your hard fought
>rationalizations to the effect that your immediate environment is
>adequately supportive of life, and the continuing function of ears, I
>recommend that you purchase something like this and explore a bit. These
>little suckers could sell a LOT of ear plugs.
>
>
>Ron N


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