muting strings

[Jon Page]

At 11:05 PM 9/15/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>List:
>      I usually mute (with the felt strips only) the entire piano from tenor
>through the last treble note before tuning. However, I have noticed primarily
>in the tenor and  mid sections, I hear a lot of overtones when using only the
>felt strips as a mute. When I use rubber mutes I hear the fundamental much,
>much better and most of the overtones are not as obvious. Do you folk mute
>only with felt strips or do you find it better to mute with the rubber mutes.
>If rubber...individual rubber mutes or a 'bank of rubber mutes'?
>
>Thanks,
>Tommy Black



I've been using single rubber mutes to tune the temperament for . . . close 
to twenty years.
For the same reason that you noticed, less bleed-thru.

I would think that the grouped-mutes would not be easily inserted into a 
vertical.
Regards,

Jon Page,   piano technician
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass.
mailto:jonpage@attbi.com
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