The mute discussion caused me to remember an idea I had some months ago while driving from a miserable spinet repair and tuning. This afternoon I overcame my inertia and made some samples, and they work great. The rubber grommets for spinet key end forks have a groove around the perimeter, and are just the right size to fit between adjacent unison groups at the V-bar of a vertical piano. Add a wire handle, and you have a miracle mute! Snap it in at the V-bar, press the damper pedal and slide it down below the damper tops, and flip the handle forward onto the hammer rest rail. You have a mute that is solidly attached to the strings, and its handle is completely out of the way of the hammers, even on the tightest spinet treble. I hope the attached photos get through the filter. Ed Sutton -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: mute_1.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 44113 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20060409/6bafad9b/attachment-0002.jpg -------------- next part -------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: mute_2.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 41697 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20060409/6bafad9b/attachment-0003.jpg
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