Tommy, > Today for the very first time I muted with only rubber mutes > as Jon Page suggested. I tried it on the "beast" Steinway 'D'. It worked > beautifully. I could hear the fundamentals as clear as a bell and all the > co-incidentals or mute. I wonder if your action cloth mutes as clearly as the > rubber mutes. They don't, but it's about the speed of the strip versus the gilded lily single mute approach. Most of the time I don't worry about the lily. :-) Like you, I have noticed that it is much easier to hear the upper octave when it is played with all strings of the lower unison sounding. John Formsma http://www.mygreatbiz.net Low long-distance, toll-free service, Skytel paging, Dish Network, internet dial-up, and more! Why pay more when you can get it for less?
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