Muting high treble

[Patrick C Poulson]

Terry: Are you saying that putting in a felt strip mute could produce enough
tension to cause the whole piano to go flat?  It seems very unlikely to me.
I would suspect a temperature change affecting the strings, or an attempt to
bring the piano up to pitch from more than 4-5 cents flat.  I strip mute all
the time, and haven't noticed such a phenomenon as you describe.
Patrick Poulson, RPT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Farrell" <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: 3/22/2002 4:36 AM
Subject: Re: Muting high treble


> I always tune with individual rubber and felt mutes. I don't strip-mute.
While practicing tuning on my Boston grand with my new Verituner yesterday,
I tuned it with one pass my normal route with two mutes to get it right at
pitch. Then I strip-muted it to do some experimenting with my new tuner -
wanted to do some interval tests, etc. without having a bad unison goof me
up. When I started my strip-muted pass, the whole darn piano was two to
three cents flat. Do any of you strip-muters find that adding that little
bit of extra tension to two-thirds of the strings on the piano affects pitch
in a like manner?
>
> Terry Farrell
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Moody" <remoody@midstatesd.net>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 1:08 AM
> Subject: Muting high treble
>
>
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Mickey Kessler <mickeykes2@uf.znet.com>
> > To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 8:16 PM
> > Subject: tuning high treble
> >
> >
> > | Hi all,
> > .........So my
> > | first question is, how do most of you mute top section, above the
> > | break?  It's so hard to get to, especially on spinets.  Is there a
> > good
> > | trick you can pass along?  Is there a way to strip mute the whole
> > | thing?  If so, what muting material do you use?
> >
> SNIP
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