Hi all, Just a thought for you all. I don't know how it would work, but it couldn't hurt to try it.... If you have to tune in a difficult environment and need to weed out extraneous noise, how about using a contact microphone (a.k.a. soundingboard microphone), feeding to an amplifier, feeding to a pair of can-type headsets??? You'd only be listening to the vibrations of the soundingboard and not to the airborne vibrations around you. Take it or leave it... :-) Peace, Sarah ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Love" <davidlovepianos@earthlink.net> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 12:41 PM Subject: Re: tuning in noisy environments. > 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 > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T. Tuner for the Center of > > the Arts > > > > mailto:pianotuna@accesscomm.ca > > > > http://us.geocities.com/drpt1948/ > > > > 3004 Grant Rd. > > REGINA, SK > > S4S 5G7 > > 306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner > > _______________________________________________ > > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >
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