Morons and best strings

[Warren Fisher]

Andre & Barrie,

I have been strip muting the entire piano, both grands and uprights for
years.  The process is tricky at the plate breaks and on uprights where
the last section of treble dampers are, but with practice takes no
longer to do than using rubber mutes.  The explanation is much longer
than doing it, so if anyone is interested, contact me directly and I'll
send you a copy.

I started doing this when I began having hearing loss from pounding in
the strings in practice rooms at the universities I service.  I put in
ear plugs while I pound in the center strings on the first time through
using a SAT then pull the plugs and tweak them up aurally on the next
pass and then I do unisons.  

Sincerely,

Warren

Antares wrote:

> I, like you, never used strip mutes.
> Now I can not live without them anymore (my wife sometimes gets hysterical ! about them :<))
> 
> Uprights aremore difficult, you can only mute ze middle.
> 


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