Muting behaviour

[Kristinn Leifsson]

Hi,

As some of you may know, one has to meddle a little bit around with a 
temperament in order to get it working.

That´s why I raised an eyebrow when a colleague of mine told me he tuned 
only using two mutes.  No temperament strip, so when he does the 
temperament he has to tune all the strings of a given unison, and then 
tunes the next note.
Now, if he has to change a note, (which is quite normal when tuning 
temperament as you know) he has to tune all the unisons again!  He says it 
doesn´t take more time, that the time of putting the strip in weighs 
against the time it takes to tune all the strings all the time.

This is as rheumatic as two dry toasts, I feel.  (plagiarized from 
Shakespeare)

What do you think?  Do any of you do this?


Kristinn