Love 'em, especially for storing chewing gum and soaking up spilled beer. Unfortunately you can't stub yer fag out on anymore so the years of pee smell is starting to get out but hey, that's the price you pay for progress.
Our local session pub has a carpeted area and a hard area and we have a choice of either area to hold our session. The sound gets absorbed in the carpeted area and bounces around in the hard floor area.
When we play in the hard floor area, it's a lot easier as our sound bounces around and any noise from the punters in the carpeted end gets absorbed. Conversely, when we play in the carpeted area, we have to work a lot harder, to overcome the deadening effect on our sound, and also to overcome the amplified chair noises / coughs / clinking glasses from the uncarpeted end.
So I'm with you, I think carpets in pubs are a bit of a pain (and yes, they end up absorbing chewing gum and beer as well as sound).
I'm getting more in favour of hard reflective surfaces, for most things except listeningf to Breton bagpipes ( my ears are still ringing after Towersey festival, we noticed his accompanying bombard player wore earplugs the whole time ).
Also carpet, particularly pub carpet, hides dark plectrums, a friend of mine lost a genuine tortoiseshell pick in a pub. I always buy my picks in bright colours for that reason.
the bane of any ceilidh band in England is the 3 yard square disco-floor that hotels insist on putting down. We always insist they get rid of it so the dancers can use the whole room.
I also regale brides with tales of broken stillettos when brides have danced off the edge of the planks, just in case the hotel doesn't get the message.
Carpeted Floors
Carpeted Floors
Are they the bane of a pub session player's existence or am,I just being picky?
# Posted on August 25th 2008 by Daniel Gott
Re: Carpeted Floors
forget the comma - i don't know what thats doing in there
# Posted on August 25th 2008 by Daniel Gott
Re: Carpeted Floors
Yeah, how are you supposed to dance on carpet?
# Posted on August 25th 2008 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: Carpeted Floors
A mixed blessing: The carpet may dampen
the goat-beater's bleat a bit.
# Posted on August 25th 2008 by pubpersona
Re: Carpeted Floors
Since I have never played in a pub or restaurant with carpeted floors, that would be a new experience for me.
# Posted on August 25th 2008 by fauxcelt
Re: Carpeted Floors
Love 'em, especially for storing chewing gum and soaking up spilled beer. Unfortunately you can't stub yer fag out on anymore so the years of pee smell is starting to get out but hey, that's the price you pay for progress.
# Posted on August 25th 2008 by Patkiwi
Re: Carpeted Floors
Our local session pub has a carpeted area and a hard area and we have a choice of either area to hold our session. The sound gets absorbed in the carpeted area and bounces around in the hard floor area.
When we play in the hard floor area, it's a lot easier as our sound bounces around and any noise from the punters in the carpeted end gets absorbed. Conversely, when we play in the carpeted area, we have to work a lot harder, to overcome the deadening effect on our sound, and also to overcome the amplified chair noises / coughs / clinking glasses from the uncarpeted end.
So I'm with you, I think carpets in pubs are a bit of a pain (and yes, they end up absorbing chewing gum and beer as well as sound).
# Posted on August 25th 2008 by Mark Harmer
Re: Carpeted Floors
I'm getting more in favour of hard reflective surfaces, for most things except listeningf to Breton bagpipes ( my ears are still ringing after Towersey festival, we noticed his accompanying bombard player wore earplugs the whole time ).
Also carpet, particularly pub carpet, hides dark plectrums, a friend of mine lost a genuine tortoiseshell pick in a pub. I always buy my picks in bright colours for that reason.
# Posted on August 26th 2008 by Guernsey Pete
Re: Carpeted Floors
I hate plectrum-patterned carpets with a passion!
# Posted on August 26th 2008 by Bren
Re: Carpeted Floors
the bane of any ceilidh band in England is the 3 yard square disco-floor that hotels insist on putting down. We always insist they get rid of it so the dancers can use the whole room.
I also regale brides with tales of broken stillettos when brides have danced off the edge of the planks, just in case the hotel doesn't get the message.
# Posted on August 31st 2008 by geoffwright