---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Thanks, Dale. You said it much better than I could have! :-) Avery At 10:19 AM 7/21/05, you wrote: > 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. > 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 >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/56/08/5d/c4/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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