---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment On 5-feb-05, at 6:30, Piano Forte Supply wrote: > > I was wondering if there's anyone with experience soundproofing a=20 > room so as to minimize the output of a piano to adjacent rooms/floors,=20= > without doing anything to the piano itself. > > Thanks. > > - John > Well, My wife is a professional pianist and a composer of contemporary music. She need to be able to work night and day in our apartment on the=20 fourth floor, in an older building, built in the 1920's. Thanks to all the existing deities, including Donald Duck, that my=20 neighbors are abnormal people, by which I mean that they don't make a=20 single sound... I never hear them. Likewise, I don't want to create irritations so we had a sound=20 specialist come over to give us 'sound' advice. We accepted his offer because, out of a number of so called=20 specialists, his views on sound and how to make a soundproof room=20 seemed the best thus far. He started out with laying a huge amount of rubber on the floor, maybe=20= about 15 cm high. On that rubber basis, he laid a platform of wood, on which he built a=20 complete room, without any of the walls or ceiling touching the=20 existing walls, or ceiling. Because we liked to keep the view outside the huge original window, he=20= built a double window, through which we could open the original window=20= to air it out as well. Another compromise was made by making two very heavy doors : one to=20 enter the room, the other to open a deep cupboard, built in the=20 original wall. In these older houses, you can't afford to let=20 cupboards disappear. Space is sparse and valuable (Holland, you know). We installed my wife's grand piano, and her equipment, and then she=20 went down to water the plants of the neighbor, who was on vacation, and=20= she asked me to play the piano so that she could check if the neighbor=20= would still be able to hear our piano. So I started playing loud for a few minutes, and then the phone rang...=20= It was my wife, asking me whether I had started playing the piano, or=20 not? (; >)) friendly greetings from ANDR=C9 OOREBEEK Where 'music' is no harm can be www.concertpianoservice.nl ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 3199 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/1a/12/5f/aa/attachment.bin ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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