tuning in noisy environments.

[David Love]

Though it's certainly possible to get the job done in a relatively noisy
environment, there is no question that my tunings are better when it is
quiet, especially in the extremes.  An ETD can help.  But the thread started
with the question of when and how to communicate with the customer that the
environment is not conducive to doing the best work.  I recall when I was
just starting out, going to a customers home and when I sat down to start
tuning, the customer was joined by another person in the same room to sit
down and conduct a conversation.  I was too new and intimidated to ask that
they leave or be quiet.  By the time I was done, I was so aggravated by the
situation that who knows what kind of job I did.  Only afterward did I
realize that I would have been much better off making my demands for
silence.  If I end up not doing such a good job because of the environment,
and somebody hears later that the tuning was not so good, they will not
consider the mitigating factors, only that I didn't do my job so well.  When
the situation cannot be controlled, then you do your best.  But when you can
do something, you owe it to yourself to speak up.

David Love

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Kurta" <mkurta@adelphia.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: November 24, 2002 8:06 AM
Subject: Re: tuning in noisy environments.


    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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