For you mathemeticians..

[Farrell]

Woe......... That's too cool. And I have another addition to my bag of 
tricks! Thanks Kent and Ron.

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message -----
> My biggest problem with string replacement is getting customers to leave 
> the mute the heck ALONE. I used to get the call a couple of weeks after 
> the string replacement with the complaint that one of the notes "slipped", 
> and sounded awful. It was, of course, because after I had showed them what 
> I had done and instructed them to leave the mute alone, and why, they had 
> subsequently "discovered" the mute in there, and pulled it. Now I follow 
> Kent Swafford's advice and install two mutes. One visible sacrificial mute 
> for them to know about, admire, worry over, and snatch out as the mood 
> randomly strikes them, and a callback prevention stealth mute hidden out 
> of sight back under the lid or under the dampers on a vertical and doing 
> the real work. So next year, I get the "Here, you accidentally left this 
> in the piano last time" mute handed to me (Oh yes, thank you), and can 
> ferret out the stealth mute and tune the new string with everything else 
> without penalty. It works.
> Ron N