This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I agree about the felt mute . . tried the rubber strip and found it to = be a pain in the., . . . . JIm ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Erwinspiano@aol.com=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 11:19 AM Subject: Re: Strip mutes was . . Re: Moving from Uprights to Grands Ric Frankly the idea that a good tuner can't get good results when = using a temp strip is Hogwash. It sound like your saying something = similar.=20 I've been using complete strip muting for 32 years & I beleive the = stability of my work speaks for itself. I know many others who do as = well & with the finest results you can imagine I will say that the material used for muting can have an enormous = impact on the stability. Rule no. 1....Do not use supply house temp = strips. I use the thick green action cloth for years . It's stripped to about = 1/2 to 5/8 wide. I use the one that gets thinnest from use in the top = treble ,the next most worn one in the capo section & the thickest newest = one in the middle & bass. Using this cloth spreads the strings to a bare = minimum with effeicient damping. The efficiency of the whole tuning system is also less tedious for = me than always moving hands & mutes ... but that's me. If using one mute works well for you then this is great. It's the = results that count. but enough of the myth that strip muting can't give = excellent results. Dale Hi, Susan and Michael et al, The whole business of strip muting for either the temperament = octave or even into the further reaches of the piano has always been = controversial here in UK. Probably like Michael I was trained very = traditionally, to discard the strip mute quite early on and rely on = one's ear for laying the temperament with just two wedges. It has = always been looked down upon in the profession here if a tuner still has = to use a temperament strip, almost suggesting that his/her ear is not = reliable enough to do without it. The analogy being a baby's walking = frame I suppose! Because of this early influence I can actually feel = 'ashamed' if I resort to using a strip or rubber gang mute on a = difficult piano. Do i need psychoanalysis? However, I could actually = argue pretty stongly in favour of using them with very small grands and = uprights where inharmonicity is so pronounced that setting an acceptable = temperament can take more than one pass, and using this aid would be = quicker. When this topic comes under discussion over here it is = generally argued that the temperament is not exactly the same when you = return to complete the unisons and that the whole excercise can be more = time consuming. It would be interesting to know what proportion of tuners is 'mute = free' Ric Erwins Pianos Restorations=20 4721 Parker Rd. Modesto, Ca 95357 209-577-8397 Rebuilt Steinway , Mason &Hamlin Sales www.Erwinspiano.com ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/00/79/8d/87/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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