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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20130112/6ec340de/attachment.htm>
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