[pianotech] Advantages/Disadvantages of muting techniques

[David Ilvedson]

If you are fine tuning a piano, i.e. making a change of around 1 or 2 cents, I don't think strip muting would be a problem...aurally.   

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

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From: PianoForteTechnologies <pianofortetechnology at saol.com>
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Received: 8/4/2009 8:55:00 AM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Advantages/Disadvantages of muting techniques


>Hello Ed and David

> 

>Ed, I will try what you suggest and see how it works.

> 

>David, If one had to be fine tuning, would the center string change that
>much or at all?  Yes, if while I am pitch raising and tuning in one pass,
>the center string will change.

>One makes judgements and tunes accordingly, I suppose.  It certainly will
>not be a fine tuning but a tuning that most will accept, except concert
>tuners and concert pianists. 

>Is this why some tuners tune unisons as you go only, so you can hear the
>change between intervals, once the unison (or couple) has been tuned and
>adjust accordingly as you go?

>You have made me think!?

> 

>Mark Davis

> 

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