This is a multipart message in MIME format ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Listen...most of us can afford more than one mute, but David= lives in a depressed area and maybe we should all chip in for= another mute or maybe even a temp strip...;-] Seriously...(if that's possible)this is an old style tuning= technique best left to the past, imho. Extremely ineffiecient= unless, as David apparently has, one has the ability to get it= right the first time. Otherwise retuning all strings with each= tweek is...NUTS! again imho. I, on the other hand, also tune= my unisons as I go but I have an SAT III which gets me quickly= and accurately in nearly the right place every time. Gave up= the temp strip years ago when it became apparent the middle= string was changing by the time I got back to bringing in the= outside strings. David I. ----- Original message ----------------------------------------> From: jason kanter <jkanter@rollingball.com> To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org> Received: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 09:22:33 -0800 Subject: one rubber mute Dave Anderson sez: I tune A440, then A220 to that, tuning the right string of each= note first, then the middle, then the left. I check, usually= with the F3 below, to see that I=92m on pitch. Then I go ahead and set the temperament (F3 to F4), putting each= note in relationship with its neighbors, tuning as I go. I make= small adjustments to the notes through the practice of= =93shimming=94 the unisons, or =93cracking=94 the unisons: say I=92ve got= 4 notes of the temperament tuned, and I decide the 2nd note I= tuned needs to move a little. I move one outside string= (usually) a slight, slight bit in the direction I want it to go,= then match it with the middle string, and check where it is. If= I like it, I leave it; if I don=92t, I move it some more. WHen I'm in the temperament section, I'm constantly using= reference strings for checks -- testing fifths with the major= sixth below the lower note of the fifth, for example. How do you= do this efficiently using a single rubber mute? | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |= | | | | | | | | Jason Kanter . piano tuning regulation repair jkanter@rollingball.com . cell 425 830 1561 serving the eastside and the san juans ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/b5/72/78/90/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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