tuning in noisy environments.

[Don]

Hi,

I find that soft sounds interfer with my tuning skills far more than
moderately loud ones. I.e. if it doesn't drown out the piano's voice I can
tune through the extranious sounds. What I hate tuning through is a clock
ticking in the room. That disrupts me and slows me down more than any other
sound I've found so far.

At 09:04 PM 11/23/02 -0600, you wrote:
>
>>Yes, tune aurally only.  Would listening to piano music confuse a machine?
>>Arthur
>
>Probably not. So what you've got with the Mozart, is either a holistic 
>analog subjective comparative ETD, or the endorphins. Realistically, we can 
>talk ourselves into, or out of, hearing what we're doing with tuning to a 
>greater degree than we will normally acknowledge. I can, and do, easily 
>ignore overhead ceiling fans and television newscasts without insipid theme 
>songs, but find inane conversation, running water, and anything that 
>clinks, crackles, or rattles difficult to get around. The degree of 
>detriment of the background noise to tuning is very much dependent on the 
>aggravation level. I would guess Barry Manilo possibly wouldn't decrease 
>your tuning stress level all that much.
>
>Ron N
>
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Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T. Tuner for the Center of
the Arts

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