one rubber mute

[David Ilvedson]

Horace,

When would it be necessary and appropriate to use one mute?   

David Ilvedson



----- Original message ---------------------------------------->
From: Horace Greeley <hgreeley@stanford.edu>
To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
Received: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 12:49:11 -0800
Subject: Re: one rubber mute


>While I do not know the genesis of the technique, it was the one in use at 
>Steinway Hall in London for generations of tuners.  At least up through the 
>late 1970s there were technicians there using it...some of them quite well 
>known at the time, including the fellow who tuned for Gerald Moore (among 
>many, many others) for several decades.

>It is not my preferred technique, to be sure.  However, it is like so many 
>other things, a tool to have in your kit, to be used as necessary and 
>appropriate...to be thought of as an expansion of one's abilities, not a 
>millstone to be quickly discarded.

>Best.

>Horace

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