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[Don]

Hi Richard,

I had to develope a strategy for *very* high noise enviroments when I tuned
at an outdoor music festival. I had to prepare pianos while the previous
group was performing and the sound reinforcement topped out at over 100,000
watts.

I used a magnetic pick up input into an accu tuner and took the filtered
out put and amplifed it, sent the signal to a *sealing* type of head
phone--and wore earplugs to protect myself from the sound level. It worked
very well and I could clear unisons aurally at any partial I chose to
listen to.

I believe this stragtegem might have worked in your *impossible*
environment. And I certainly would have tried.


At 12:09 PM 10/1/00 +0200, you wrote:
>   Richard Moody wrote:    Harry 
>Truman. 
>MOST of the loud music shows were professional and considerate above 
>  It was the 
>tuners with attitudes that had the most problems or so I heard, ( and 
>  If you don't like the work, don't take it, refer it to 
>  In return I will gladly recomend you to 
>a classical flute player whose pianist seems to not like certain bass 
>octaves in a C7---ric
> I am not sure what you are concurring with ric... but it seems like you
>are of the opinion that someone on this planet could have tuned this piano
>in this situation and that I should have had the courtesy to refer the
>customer to them. This is not the case. I am known in western Norway for
>being thee piano tuner who can handle the most noise, and is most willing
>to cooperate with lighting and sound folks. Didnt get to be the tech for 2
>of the major jazz festivals in northern europe for nothing. There is a
>point where working conditions for any type of job become impossible, or at
>least so absurd that it is idiocy to subject oneself, or anyother person to
>them. I say it again.. there was absolutley no way this piano was going to
>be tuned by anyone with any piece of equipement. Period. And frankly I find
>it ludricrioius to even consider the possibility... even for the most
>uneducated mind. To use your expression a bit differently... if you want to
>get into this particular kitchen... be prepared for a temperature of around
>210 degrees. You want to defend the possibility of working in that kind of
>environment when it is perfectly possible to turn down the temperature...
>well be my guest. I on the other hand see no point to such nonsense. -- 
>Richard Brekne 
>RPT, N.P.T.F. 
>Bergen, Norway 
>  

Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.
Tuner for the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts
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