reverberation off of hard surfaces, not unlike false beats

[David Andersen]

Hey Dave---next time, try tuning super-ultra softly, and "ordering"  
your body to listen near-field. You have to be adept, which I'm sure  
you are, at setting the pin without beating the shit out of the  
piano---1 Aikido-like test blow per string is good, if necessary--- 
and your ears, and being, are much less stresed and confused at the  
end. I've had "cavern tunings" for a while: a couple massive church  
sanctuaries and several castle-type private cribs. And even tuning  
soft and listening near-field, it's still hard and challenging. Which  
is cool.
David Andersen

On Feb 21, 2007, at 7:40 AM, piannaman at aol.com wrote:
> Yesterday evening, I was tuning in a cavernous mansion with marble  
> tiled floors, cathedral ceilings, and no carpets, pictures or  
> tapestries to baffle the sound.  Going through the upper two  
> octaves, it was extremely hard to differentiate between beating and  
> echoing.  Then there was the "thwack" of the hammers that bounced  
> all over creation, not to mention the notes that really did have  
> "false" beats.