one rubber mute

[jason kanter]

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So when you, David Ilvedson, tune unisons as you go, what's your muting
procedure? I ask because I am constantly changing mine and I wonder how much
variation there is and what the best practices are. Economy of movement,
etc.

[and btw, David Andersen, I apologize for misspelling your last name in the
previous posting -- I know it irritates me (mildly) when people spell mine
with an O instead of an E.]
  -----Original Message-----
  From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On
Behalf Of David Ilvedson
  Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 3:41 PM
  To: pianotech@ptg.org
  Subject: RE: one rubber mute


  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’m 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 “shimming” the unisons, or “cracking”
the unisons: say I’ve 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’t, 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?

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  Jason Kanter . piano tuning regulation repair
  jkanter@rollingball.com . cell 425 830 1561
  serving the eastside and the san juans

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