tuning environment

[Conrad Hoffsommer]

At 19:04 2/6/2006, you wrote:
>Hi Marcel,
>I'm sorry. What I meant was, if I used a lap top with tune lab to do pitch 
>raising etc. what do I place on the piano to pick up the pitch?  I know I 
>cannot put the entire lap top on the piano like one places a ETD on the 
>piano.:) So I"m just curious as to what a tuner places on the piano in 
>order to read the pitch of the note.
>Marshall


Earlier, I said:
> > Guilty as charged...
> >
> > I have RCT on a new 14.5" screen Toshiba.
> >
> > No internal mike, so I need to plug one in, but I still can set the 'puter
> > up to 8' away on a convenient table, chair, other piano or even the floor
> > and see quite well. For grands, I usually set it up on the short 
> sticked lid.
> > Conrad


Marshall,

In verticals I drop the external mike down behind the action, sometimes 
looping the cord around the action nut, with the business end just below 
keybed level.  In grands, I either put it on the "cutoff" section of 
soundboard or on the plate in that general area.  In some pianos with a 
very weak treble I may have to move it to the bend area.

Either place affords the mike very good isolation from ambient noises like 
sneakersqueak/basketballthump, vacuums, TVs, talking, etc.



Conrad Hoffsommer

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