This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hello Bob and List Sorry about the long delay - we've been at our holiday cottage on the = North Norfolk coast - where the grass was about a foot tall and all the = hedges overgrown... a right shambles! Had to come back for a = Glyndebourne committment - an on-going irritant when one has a 7 year = old at home on holiday! So we're here at base for a week then off again = - to Verona, Italy for ten days before returning to North Norfolk. What = a round! AT 70 I get as much "life" in as I can - you can visualise = that, Bob. But enough of home life, back to the "grind". These muting = strips are to me a curse to manipulate. I cannot, of course, say that = those who use them are wrong so to do! Far from it - if that's the way = you feel most at home - most comfortable etc., then "go for it"! I have = probably iterated my method of tuning in my many writings to "The List" = but suffice it to say my "standard" proceedure for an upright is to use = One Papps wedge (only) a Lever with (interchangeable heads) and, for the = bearing octave only, my "TLA" E.T.D. Having laid the bearings, checked = the M3 progressions aurally, and made any corrections, I then carry on = using just one Papps wedge to the bottom, using 8ves, M10's. Then to the = top using 8ves, M15's, M17's. Aren't I lucky to be able to stretch that = far? :-) It's the same proceedure I use for Grands - except that I use a = 'T' hammer and one rubber wedge - the one with the wire handle. All else = is the same. This way I can tune up to 14 or so school pianos in 7 hours = - including repairs. Secret here is that the school pianos are tuned = every "term" - that is, three times a year. I make sure they stay at = A=3D440 as well. So that regularity makes the job easier. So don't for = goodness sake blow hot and cold over a method of tuning - we each of us = have our preferences. No-one is "wrong" and in the same way, no-one is = completely in the "right". OK? :-) Regards from a wet morning with the sun just trying to poke through in = Sussex Michael ps - yes, we do have rain - sometimes! And Tornadoes (it seems) and = bombers..... ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/8c/9b/89/df/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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