Strip muting, which way?

Warren Fisher fish@communique.net
Sun, 22 Dec 1996 15:29:17 -0800


JIMRPT@aol.com wrote:
>
> Well Gollee Warren;
>  I had never considered that I was doing it wrong, muting from 88 down, but
> maybe I am. That is the way I learned to strip mute and I have never thought
> about it before. Is it possible that I have been mutably incorrect all these
> years?
>   Now is a fine time for you to be causing me to doubt my technique, right in
> the middle of the Holiday Season !!
>   By all means you should use the method that suits you the best, makes the
> most sense to you, and you are most comfortable with.  I suppose that some
> stick in the mud like Jim Coleman Sr. will come up with a good solid reason
> to start in the bass and work up.  We have to remember that Jim Sr., besides
> being a great tech and teacher, is handicapped because he is also a ASU fan
> and a former (?) tuba player.
> Merry Christmas;
> Jim Bryant (FL)
>
> (JC I couldn't help it the Devil made me do it!)

Gee, Jim,  I had to go back and check to be sure, but sure enough, it
says that I'm doing it the same way you are.  How can that be a
criticism? :-).  Did you see Ben Treuhaft's contention that ALL
strip-muters don't know where it's at?  Them's fightin' werds!

Merry Christmas						Warren
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Warren D. Fisher
fish@communique.net
Registered Piano Technician
Piano Technicians Guild
New Orleans Chapter 701





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