felt mutes -- was RE: Working while tuning

[John Formsma]

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David,

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Yeah, it was in an upright. Been a long time ago.

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Have you tried using a strip of action cloth in the treble of verticals?
(About 0.090 thick, I think, and cut down the middle.)  Pulling the =
strip
out bit by bit surely beats moving mutes around, especially when you get
toward the end of the treble where you run out of room for the wire =
handles.
You also don=92t have to finagle around the dampers. I save some time =
that
way, as it takes me 1 =96 1 =BD minutes to strip the entire piano. I =
know I
spend more than that moving mutes. But it=92s whatever works best for =
you.

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John

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From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On =
Behalf
Of David Ilvedson
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 10:06 PM
To: pianotech@ptg.org
Subject: RE: felt mutes -- was RE: Working while tuning

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Your tuning too many uprights...;-]   Felt wedges don't fall out of
grands...

I do use them in uprights...haven't had any fall out if I can get them
between the unisons...but I do have to go to thin rubber mutes in the
treble...

I gave up on temp strips years ago...SAT III, my ears and 2 mutes

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, California




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Original message
From: "John Formsma"=20
To: Pianotech=20
Received: 1/6/2006 7:10:48 PM
Subject: RE: felt mutes -- was RE: Working while tuning

Thanks, Terry.

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I=92ve never used a felt wedge except once when I tried it in the bass. =
It
kept falling out, so I didn=92t use it again. I like to strip mute the
bass=85for speed. Actually, my MO for verticals is to strip the entire =
piano,
but tune unisons as I go, pulling out the felt when moving to the next
string set.  It=92s quite a bit faster than moving mutes. Grands are =
sometimes
done this way, but the action cloth I use for verticals is not quite =
thick
enough for some grands, so most of the time I use the large rubber =
wedges
(w/o the wire.)  I wouldn=92t think the narrow rubber mutes would do =
that well
in a grand, although you can make anything work if you want to. :-)

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John Formsma

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From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On =
Behalf
Of Farrell
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 7:41 AM
To: Pianotech
Subject: Re: felt mutes -- was RE: Working while tuning

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Whereas I've never tried a large rubber wedge, I have tried the regular
rubber mutes in the past that I use on uprights. On grands, I find that =
the
felt mutes are easier to insert, are very stable (stay where you put =
them),
and mute exceptionally well. You can also place them fairly loosely in =
place
and still mute well - I always wondered how jamming those rubber mutes =
in
between strings might be affecting the pitch of a string that was =
already
tuned.

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They just seem to work better to me.

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And besides, they don't make that screeching noise that a rubber mute =
can
sometimes make!

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Terry Farrell


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