Dear Lloyd, Your comments: >>I face next week...a console with an extremely short distance between the strings and the plate, making it difficult (if not impossible) to keep the mute strip in. Grateful for any suggestions or ideas. . .<< I sympathize with your situation. I have met one or two of those type pianos. As I recall, I mute stripped the strings where the felt strip would stay in place, and for the rest of the strings (if you haven't guessed by now), I use two rubber mutes with wire handles. It requires a minor attitude adjustment and a minor reality adjustment in time to accomplish the overall tuning. Also makes for excellent practice on the art of inserting and reinserting rubber mutes :> If one doesn't lament their situation and doesn't get in a hurry, the tuning is over suprisingly quick. It's all the concern and thinking about it that makes for excess time on location. Keith A. McGavern, RPT Oklahoma Chapter
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