[pianotech] Bluthner birdcage

[Rob McCall]

Gregor,  I used a Papp's mute just like your second link.  That seemed  
to work very well.  Lot's of good advice.  Thanks!

John, I wholeheartedly agree.  No matter how much light I had, it  
never seemed enough!  :-)

Rob

On Sep 09, 2009, at 03:55 , John Ross wrote:

> I use a Papp's mute, and lots of light.
> John Ross
> Windsor, Nova Scotia
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Gregor _
> To: pianotech at ptg.org
> Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 6:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Bluthner birdcage
>
> Terry,
>
> wow, never heard of that muting technique. No wonder that you feel  
> traumatized :-)
>
> I tuned many of these birdcages. When I used to be an aural tuner I  
> tilted the action forward to insert a temperament mute strip or  
> better a mute comb and pushed the action back. After tuning the  
> temperament I removed the strip/comb and tuned the unisons with a  
> single mute. Then going down in octaves (checking the fourth/fifth)  
> and finally going up in octaves. Always using a single mute for the  
> string to be tuned and one mute for the checking string. Never  
> tilting the action for every single key.
>
> Now, using an ETD, it´s much easier. I start with A0 and go up to  
> C8. Always using a single mute like Rob described. It´s a little bit  
> tricky to insert the mute because you don´t see very much. But after  
> a while it becomes much easier, no need to worry. Annoying is that  
> you allways have to stoop down to look where to insert the mute. I  
> am not shure wich mute you used, I use these:
>
> http://www.meyne-klaviertechnik.de/start.php?go=10details&id=647&code=2&zustand=5&site=0
>
> or these:
>
> http://www.meyne-klaviertechnik.de/start.php?go=10details&id=648&code=2&zustand=5&site=0
>
> We see many birdcage pianos here, and usually we recommend not to  
> invest any money aside from tuning. But there are 2 exceptions, and  
> this is commen sense in Germany: Blüthner and Ibach overdampers.  
> Often very well sounding and well damping.
>
> BTW: sometimes you can´t tilt the action forward because it´s  
> connected with the key frame. In that case you have to pull the key  
> frame including the action.
>
>
> Gregor

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