Hi Rob, You have started at the top! The Bluthner overdamper piano is wonderful compared to most of the others. I use a split mute and a single mute when working on them. It takes no extra time at all that way. At 01:03 AM 9/9/2009 -0700, you wrote: >Greetings, > >Anyway, I walk in and I find a beautiful black upright. It's away >from the windows and not under any vents. It looks well taken care of. >We chat and I find out this piano used to belong to a famous opera >singer from Germany. It was purchased by her grandmother and >eventually shipped from Germany over to the US and finally ends up >where I find it... So, I open the top lid, check the serial number >(75256) and find out it was built in 1908. > >I have a question... How the heck do you guys mute this thing? Other >than what I ended up doing which was to use a single mute and work my >way up (from the tenor break), and then down (below the break). It >seems like it was designed to make it as hard as possible to reach >anything other than the tuning pin. Any tips or techniques will be >welcomed with open arms. > >Here's a couple of photos of the Bluthner. It was really in excellent >condition. Ivory keys were all intact, too. > >Regards, > >Rob McCall Regards, Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T. Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat mailto:pianotuna at yahoo.com http://us.geocities.com/drpt1948/ 3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK, S4S 5G7 306-539-0716
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