----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan R. Barnard" <mathstar@salemnet.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2002 9:50 PM Subject: Re: Hedges and Pianos (OT) > Too much mute moving for me ... > > Alan Barnard > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul Chick (EarthLink)" <tune4@earthlink.net> > To: <pianotech@ptg.org> > Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2002 8:45 PM > Subject: Re: Hedges and Pianos (OT) > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <Tvak@AOL.COM> > > To: <pianotech@ptg.org> > > Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 7:51 AM > > Subject: Hedges and Pianos (OT) > > > > > > > Maybe I should go in one direction for the first pass (from A0 to C8) > and > > > then go the opposite direction on the second pass! > > > > > > So I think I'll try it. Next time I come across a Betsy Ross spinet > > that's > > > 150 cents flat, I'll take the hedge trimmer and move from left to right, > > and > > > then go in the opposite direction for my second pass. > > > > > > I'll bet when I'm done, that piano would never have sounded better. > > > > > > Tom Sivak > > > > > > Tom > > I've been using a "reverse" pattern for a number of years, tuning from the > > temperament octave up to C8 tuning the center strings, then back down to > the > > break tuning one side of the unisons, then back up to C8 on the other > side. > > It works well for pitch raises and the piano is very stable. > > > > Paul Chick > > > On the contrary. Strip mutes arranged in specific patterns eliminates all but a few mute movements. Paul Chick
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