sustain

[Farrell]

Please describe, to the best of your (anyone out there) ability, at what
point do you stop the stopwatch when quantifying sustain duration. I usually
time it until just at the end of the point where I can still just barely
hear anything that I can identify is still that note ringing - truly a
judgement call. Is there any other considerations that some use - or are we
all shooting at pretty much the same target?

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don" <pianotuna@accesscomm.ca>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 7:39 PM
Subject: Re: sustain


> Hi David,
>
> 8 seconds at c6 means *no* sound left at all. I do have some nice uprights
> where sustain is 12 or 13 seconds at c6. I also look for bass break to be
> 24 to 26 seconds with the notes on either side decaying at the same rate.
>
> The designer of the Baldwin 6000 expected that instrument to sustain for 8
> seconds at c6. I figured it was a great test that clients could do in the
> field.
>
> At 10:30 PM 9/25/2003 -0600, you wrote:
> >Hi Ric,
> >
> >I look at c6 to be 8 seconds. I consider that a minimum standard--not
> >tremendous. Different strokes for different folks? *grin*.
>
> >    Jeez, I rarely encounter a piano, grand or upright, large or small,
> that rings for more than 5 or 6 seconds at C6.  That includes several 9
> footers that I tune, not that length necessarily has anything to do with
> sustain.  --David Nereson, RPT
>
> Regards,
> Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.
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