Acoustical Instruments - a Bad Idea??


When playing music on one’s audio system, is it a bad idea to have certain acoustical instruments in the room?

I just moved, and was thinking of purchasing an upright or maybe a small grand piano placed in the same room as my speakers.  Then I realized that the piano strings may start sympathetic vibration to the audio music adding room distortion.  Maybe any stringed instrument in the room is a bad idea. Drum cymbals, or anything bell like a glockenspiel..

What do you think?

kennyc

Way back when, a dealership in downtown Brooklyn kept a separate listening room, only the speakers to be auditioned were wheeled in on dollies, so no 'induced' vibrations from cones of other speakers would be involved. Made sense, right?

A member here suggested my Piano might be adding something, and I agree, you would think so, 

I set up my SPL meter on a tripod, listening position, seated ear height, CD with 29 1/3 octave test tones, play, pause, sound just disappeared, nothing carried on beyond pause at any frequency I tried. Maybe more precise equipment could detect something, 

Most living room and most non controlled acoustical dedicated room will not give  much audible  difference ...

 but in a well controlled acoustical room , the material content and location of a brass instrument or of drum, cymbal may create (location matter) an audible difference...

To illustrate it the dimension of a straw or a fine tube as the neck of a resonators impact very audibly the sound in some frequencies band (location matter) ...

I have 4 acoustic and 5 electric guitars in my listening space and I don't believe they interfere with the sound at all.

I found that the strings of an acoustic guitar sometimes audibly resonate with music in the room. So I dampen them and cover the sound hole with a soft cloth.