lo-o-o-ong sustain

[Allen Wright]

Ed,

I've seen that Parthenon copy in Nashville, it's quite impressive. I  
can't remember - is it 1 : 1 scale?

What a concept:  "I could still hear the beating of a unison long  
after I had it tuned". That just ain't natural, Ed  : ) That sounds  
like some kind of freaky thought experiment.

Allen Wright
London, UK

On May 23, 2008, at 1:10 AM, A440A at aol.com wrote:

> Allen  writes:
>
> << I've tuned in some rooms with a lot of reverb before,
> but this one takes the cake (see below); the reverb time must have
> been 5 seconds (probably more - I only had 30 minutes to tune, so not
> a lot of time to get out the stopwatch : )    No doubt many of you
> have tuned in museums before, and know what the experience is  
> like.   >>
>
> I once attempted to tune a Steinway D in the Parthenon, (here in  
> Nashville we
> have an exact replica of the original, and ours is better than the  
> original
> 'cause it hasn't fallen apart).
>    The entire interior is marble and concrete, and it is huge.   
> Reverb is
> approx 15 seconds, which meant that I could still hear the beating  
> of a unison
> long after I had it tuned,(with a SAT).  It would have been  
> impossible to do it
> aurally, and I told the pianist that was playing later to forget  
> about using
> the damper pedal.
> Worst tuning environment I have ever had, (that includes years of rock
> concert tuning).
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Ed Foote RPT
> http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
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