[pianotech] Reducing tuning time (was Re: frustrated)

[Mike Kurta]

    I had my wife sew two lengths together.  Voila! Now I have only one mute strip to contend with.  Length is no problem, when I put it away I fold it in half length, half again, and lay it in my case. Easy.
    Mike Kurta
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ron Nossaman 
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2013 9:45 AM
  Subject: Re: [pianotech] Reducing tuning time (was Re: frustrated)


  On 1/12/2013 8:06 AM, tunerboy3 at comcast.net wrote:

  > You order it like one solid piece, something like 72" or 84" long or
  > so, and cut to desired length or, don't cut it at all.  I ordered 6
  > or 10 of them so I could experiment with it.  I wound up cutting one
  > of them down the center all the way and using that one in the treble.

  I cut a strip diagonally down it's length and get two tapered lengths. 
  Ideal in verticals to get around the dampers in that last section where 
  there's no room  - especially in Baldwins. A full width strip works very 
  well in the bass, or two of them if one leaks too much. Pearl River 
  passed out a terrific strip at the convention one year. Thin action 
  cloth sewed to buckskin (or Ecsaine, but it acts like buckskin). Best 
  tenor strip I've ever used in grands. I've wished I had managed to get a 
  couple more, but they were pretty protective of them and they wouldn't 
  be difficult to make when the one I have gives up the ghost.


  >  I don't now why but string spacing tends to
  > be a little greater in the tenor on verticals than in the treble.

  Fan angles, I'd say. I use a narrow strip of thicker action cloth here.
  Ron N
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