tuning in noisy environments.

[Mike Kurta]

    Hi Guys & Gals:
    Speaking from lots of experience tuning in noisy environments, i.e.
casinos, entertainment venues, nursing home bingo games, etc, may I  add
some comments:
Unless extraneous noise is SO loud as to really interfere with hearing the
piano, I've found it is mainly a mental distraction.  Unless it is easily
reduced or eliminated, mind training to discriminate and mentally shut out
the unwanted noise helps.  Its not easy to do (don't think of an elephant),
but with practice it works.  Focusing on the job at hand, and not letting
the distracting noise bother has helped me.
    Mike Kurta
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don" <pianotuna@accesscomm.ca>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 10:19 AM
Subject: tuning in noisy environments.


> 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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