This is a multipart message in MIME format ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Ron: I've noticed this too. Many years ago an audiologist friend and= I were going to do some testing. We wanted to test the hearing= of some musicians and piano technicians and also test their= perception of an octave. Play a tone of say 880hz and have them= set the octave on an electronic oscillator. Both tones would= never play simultaneously so they couldn't tune by eliminating= beats but would have to tune the octave melodically. We'd have= them tune maybe 5 different octaves that way. Our object was to= have been to establish the relationship between upper hearing= loss and the amount they stretched their octaves. Sadly, we= never got around to conducting the research. He was a busy= audiologist, I was a busy technician.......... dave Several years ago when I was tuning for a lot of professional= musicians, I noticed that the hearing trauma level of clients is= proportional to their desire for more treble stretch (symptoms= which give away the level of someone's trauma level include -= can't hear conversation at parties - client requests voicing= levels which are unusually bright - can't tune with a vacuum= cleaner going in the same room - can't tune with air= conditioning background noise). Similarly, I've noticed that many senior technicians tune the= high treble way high. One 'tuner', who has thankfully since= retired, was quite fond of pulling top C up to the E fl above.= As our hearing rolls off as we age, we prefer the treble stretch= to be wider. I don't know why, but its a conclusion I've drawn,= tuning from 22 years of age to 51. Speaking of deteriorating faculties, just as an aside. In my home town out west from Sydney 350 miles, an elderly (80+)= man visited the local GP recently and complained about his aches= and pains and the difficulty he was having pushing the lawn= mower. The young GP, who is well known for her sense of humour= replied, "don't complain ****, most blokes your age are pushing= up daisies not cutting them off". Ron O. -- OVERS PIANOS - SYDNEY Grand Piano Manufacturers _______________________ Web http://overspianos.com.au mailto:info@overspianos.com.au _______________________ ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/5c/73/f7/5d/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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