[pianotech] spring steel split mute (was Pitch raise criteria)

John Formsma formsma at gmail.com
Wed Aug 5 09:52:58 MDT 2009


On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Joe Goss <imatunr at srvinet.com> wrote:

>  Yes that is the one.
> You have trimmed both the top and bottom of the mute.
> As I work the mute right handed only the top ( as it points to the left) is
> trimmed. This works for almost all the damper section. There still may be a
> few dampers that need to be raised with the pedal or finger so as not to
> harm the damping.
>


Yes, I believe you are correct about how I trimmed it. At any rate, at
present it doesn't work well as far as moving it between string sets goes.
:-)  But since I don't use it for muting much, I haven't tried to fix it.
Mostly just use it for inserting a strip mute.


-- 
JF
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