OK, then, I wonder if there could be a different way to mute those sections that could keep more energy in the entire system? I imagine (don't know) that those string segments still vibrate against the braiding felt (perhaps more slowly). This seems like a waste of perfectly good kinetic energy. If they could be made stiffer, or have more mass, wouldn't their energy be reflected back into the speaking length, the same way we want rims to be rigid? Adding mass could have more side effects (damping soundboard motion); what about snap-on sleeves of some kind? You'd have to prevent buzzing somehow. Could they even be coupled across each other in a way that would still allow tuning movement? Stiff plastic sheet, a few inches wide? --Cy Shuster-- Rochester, MN ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Nossaman" <RNossaman@cox.net> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 9:33 AM Subject: Re: Stringing Braid and the perception of doing it right > >If it were easy to mute just individual strings, would you start with no > >braid, and just try to identify the individual "zingers"? I'm wondering if > >this would result in more sustain, or a fuller tone, than with braiding > >entire sections. > > > >--Cy Shuster-- > > It does help sustain, and makes more sound, at the expense of some "noise". > > Ron N
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