Strip Muting/unisons

[Kristinn Leifsson]

O.K.  Just one of those things.

K.L.




At 15:12 17.2.2000 -0600, you wrote:
>Kristinn,
>At 19:03 02/17/2000 +0000, you wrote:
>>O.K.
>
>>the purpose of this "every other unison stripping" seems to elude me.  Why
>>would one do that as opposed to just using one strip and do all the unisons
>>with that.
>
>
>Alternate stripping doesn't help with tuning the center strings at all.
>When it helps is when you are tuning unisons.
>
>Due to the configuration of most pin arrangements, when you pull out one of
>those strips you find that the pins corresponding to the exposed strings
>are all in one horizontal (perpendicular to string) line.
>
>This means that if you tune up in a whole tone scale (every other note) you
>will be tuning all the top pins and returning back down you will be tuning
>all the bottom.  Pulling the second strip, you will be tuning what is left
>or the second row from the top and the second from the bottom.
>
>The speed comes from not having to pull the strip out at every unison (only
>4 strip pulls/piano vs 60+), and you just move your hammer to the next in
>line, not top to bottom to top to bottom, etc.
>
>I suspect also that this way of tuning only 1/6 of the pins at one pass
>also results in a more stable tuning, but that is only speculation on my
>part at this time.
>
>
>
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