---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hi, Susan and Michael et al, The whole business of strip muting for either the temperament octave or even into the further reaches of the piano has alway been controversial here in UK. Probably like Michael I was trained very traditionally, to discard the strip mute quite early on and rely on one's ear for laying the temperament with just two wedges. It has always been looked down upon in the profession here if a tuner still has to use a temperament strip, almost suggesting that his/her ear is not reliable enough to do without it. The analogy being a baby's walking frame I suppose! Because of this early influence I can actually feel 'ashamed' if I resort to using a strip or rubber gang mute on a difficult piano. Do i need psychoanalysis? However, I could actually argue pretty stongly in favour of using them with very small grands and uprights where inharmonicity is so pronounced that setting an acceptable temperament can take more than one pass, and using this aid would be quicker. When this topic comes under discussion over here it is generally argued that the temperament is not exactly the same when you return to complete the unisons and that the whole excercise can be more time consuming. It would be interesting to know what proportion of tuners is 'mute free' Ric ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/53/bc/2c/f3/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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