45 min tunings/The Thing

[Kristinn Leifsson]

>Have you ever used strip mutes to tune all the middle strings first? I do
>that for all verticals. Strip muting is the way to go for verts, IMO, but
>especially for pitch raises. Yes, it is possible to do a slightly better job
>by tuning the unisons first before tuning octaves, but it generally takes
>much more time, and it is a rare customer who can ever tell the difference
>anyway.
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>John Formsma
>Blue Mountain, MS
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I always strip mute the middle, that´s the way I was taught.  Then I tune
up, then I tune down, then I take the unisons in the middle. With a Papps
mute, OF COURSE! 
On overdamped pianos I strip mute all the steel strings (with an acid
soaked strip!) 

Kristinn