---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Jurgen, Even though I do a lot of "rubber mute" tuning, I've recently bought temp. strips from Scaff (way too thick) and Piantek (way too wide. Can't even use on a vertical without cutting!). I may be contacting you soon! :-) Avery At 08:04 PM 11/5/04, you wrote: >Two comments: if the outside strings are not "close" to the pitch of the >middle string, they are more apt to "leak" through the temperament >strip. (Also, if they are then tuned to the middle string, the middle >string will probably shift. "You can't tune a piano that is not in tune") >As well, pianos will have different string spacings and your temp. strip >may not be tight enough because it is too thin. I can supply pure wool >temperament strips in different thicknesses > >Jurgen Goering >Piano Forte Supply > >> >>Trent Wrote: >>...On the Bush & Lane, I'd noticed this interference from the damped >>outside strings a few times, too, but it only had an effect for the first >>fraction of a second or so, then presumably the temperament strip killed >>the interference. But on the Mason & Hamlin, the interference from the >>outside strings seemed to last a couple seconds or so. Plus, it seems >>like maybe it actually influences the middle string, and it seems to make >>the last steps of zero-ing in ambiguous. ..... >> >> >>.....I was wondering if anyone else finds it difficult to adequately damp >>the outside strings with a felt temperament strip. Or is my technique >>wrong, either the way I'm listening or the way I'm using the strip, >>although I can't see too many ways to drastically improve how I put it >>in. Is noise from the outside strings normal, and you're supposed to >>learn to work around it? Or maybe I just have a cheap or incorrect type >>of temperament strip. I noticed that the one that came in the Randy >>Potter materials seemed to have a high synthetic content. Maybe it would >>work better, but something happened to it (involving it's being called to >>service in another musical instrument), so I've been using a >>feltier/woolier one that I got in a box of miscellaneous used piano >>stuff, so I don't know much about it. It doesn't seem to fit too loosely >>or anything though. ........ >> >>I should mention that because I've been doing a lot of temperament >>changing and pitch-raising type things, the three strings of the unisons >>are often pretty far off from each other, more than normal, so maybe that >>has something to do with this...... >> >> >>Trent Lesher >> >> ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/68/92/97/41/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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