[Files] A very useful vertical mute

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Hi Ed,
Would you happen to know the catelog numbers for these grommets?  This idea sounds interesting.  Thanks Ed
Marshall

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From: ed440 at mindspring.com 

> 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 
> 
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