Muting high treble

[Keith Roberts]

Terry,  it is possible if you don't use mute strips a lot, to use too thick
of a strip. One tech here has a vary thin strip somebody sewed a piece of
some thing like bushing cloth to one side giving it a thickness you can't
seem to purchase any where. Obviously, you don't want to deflect the string
sideways much. Weaving a strip behind the dampers on a grand is where the
problem is the greatest. Weave the strip close to the capo bar, if possible.
Somehow, my thin strips must have fallen out of the car on the way to a
tuning, so I wove my thickest strips so it wasn't pinched to double
thickness, but side by side. Great damping, minimal bleed thru, but takes
twice as much strip, take twice as long to weave and if you make it look
neat to save strip, even longer. If your not careful pulling it out you'll
test your tuning stability. I think that is when I learned to work the piano
with just stick mutes.

Keith R
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick C Poulson" <pcpoulso@pacbell.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: Muting high treble


> 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
> >
> >
>
>