new strings

[Jon Page]

The best thing to do is to mute the wire with a felt wedge.
Rubber is hard and has a tendency to cause more noise
than felt. On long strings, I'll place two mutes; one in front and one
at the bridge in case one falls out. It will also dampen any harmonic
effect which may be produced.

If a loop breaks in the treble and they belong to one unison,
you may have to mute  the outside string if there is not enough tone
from one string; at least one of the out-of-tune wires would be muted.
If both bi-chords are replaced, mute one.

Muting new wire is just a fact of life everyone has to deal with.

Regards,

Jon Page

At 04:38 PM 04/22/2001 -0700, you wrote:
><snip>teacher who teaches ALOT of students - and a string breaks,
><snip>Do I just mute it off until it streches and tell her that she simply
>has to live withtwo  muted notes (in this case it is a bass bi-chord),
>or is there some other trick I don't know about?  I
>kept pulling it (way up) when I was there, but that
>lasts about two days, in my experience.
>Harriet