I have found that my muting felt does not add enough tension to the strings to PHYSICALLY change the pitch, but will indeed change the pitch a tad sharp when muting trichord unisons. I know there's an explanation for this but let someone else explain. Many pianos don't allow my muting strip to make a difference - there's too much bleedthrough. That's when I use the black rubber. Someday it will be nice not to have to use any muting strips. Jay Mercier > >Terry: Are you saying that putting in a felt strip mute could produce >enough >tension to cause the whole piano to go flat? It seems very unlikely to me. >I would suspect a temperature change affecting the strings, or an attempt >to >bring the piano up to pitch from more than 4-5 cents flat. I strip mute >all >the time, and haven't noticed such a phenomenon as you describe. >Patrick Poulson, RPT >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Farrell" <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com> >To: <pianotech@ptg.org> >Sent: 3/22/2002 4:36 AM >Subject: Re: Muting high treble > > > > I always tune with individual rubber and felt mutes. I don't strip-mute. >While practicing tuning on my Boston grand with my new Verituner yesterday, >I tuned it with one pass my normal route with two mutes to get it right at >pitch. Then I strip-muted it to do some experimenting with my new tuner - >wanted to do some interval tests, etc. without having a bad unison goof me >up. When I started my strip-muted pass, the whole darn piano was two to >three cents flat. Do any of you strip-muters find that adding that little >bit of extra tension to two-thirds of the strings on the piano affects >pitch >in a like manner? > > > > Terry Farrell > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Richard Moody" <remoody@midstatesd.net> > > To: <pianotech@ptg.org> > > Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 1:08 AM > > Subject: Muting high treble > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: Mickey Kessler <mickeykes2@uf.znet.com> > > > To: <pianotech@ptg.org> > > > Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 8:16 PM > > > Subject: tuning high treble > > > > > > > > > | Hi all, > > > .........So my > > > | first question is, how do most of you mute top section, above the > > > | break? It's so hard to get to, especially on spinets. Is there a > > > good > > > | trick you can pass along? Is there a way to strip mute the whole > > > | thing? If so, what muting material do you use? > > > > > SNIP > > > > > Jay Mercier Associate member, Twin Cities Chapter PTG Glenwood, MN _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com
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