Defending your tuning

[Porritt, David]

John:

Your comment about hearing conversation in noisy rooms is very common in
our profession.  Maybe Diane has some insight.

dp

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David M. Porritt, RPT
dporritt at smu.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On
Behalf Of John Formsma
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 8:52 AM
To: Pianotech List
Subject: Re: Defending your tuning

Probably because that's where he focuses his hearing.

I tend to think that we as piano tuners listen to such a broad
spectrum of sound that we tend to lose the ability to focus well on
speech. For instance, we might not hear words clearly, though there is
nothing wrong with our hearing.

I had my hearing tested last year, and it's normal, but I do have
small problems sometimes hearing conversation if there is a lot of
noise in the room.  I think it might be because I've focused my brain
so hard to listen for everything that I end up hearing everything in
the room.

FWIW,

JF

On 7/24/07, Robin Blankenship <tunerdude at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Very curious affair. Strange to me that above F6, he did not seem to
care.
>
> Robin Blankenship