Hi Ed, Would you happen to know the catelog numbers for these grommets? This idea sounds interesting. Thanks Ed Marshall -------------- Original message -------------- From: ed440 at mindspring.com > The mute discussion caused me to remember an idea I had some months > ago while driving from a miserable spinet repair and tuning. This > afternoon I overcame my inertia and made some samples, and they work > great. > > The rubber grommets for spinet key end forks have a groove around the > perimeter, and are just the right size to fit between adjacent unison > groups at the V-bar of a vertical piano. > > Add a wire handle, and you have a miracle mute! > > Snap it in at the V-bar, press the damper pedal and slide it down > below the damper tops, and flip the handle forward onto the hammer > rest rail. You have a mute that is solidly attached to the strings, > and its handle is completely out of the way of the hammers, even on > the tightest spinet treble. > > I hope the attached photos get through the filter. > > Ed Sutton > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20060410/fc86f6c3/attachment-0001.html -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: ed440 at mindspring.com Subject: [Files] A very useful vertical mute Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 10:20:50 +0000 Size: 116844 Url: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20060410/fc86f6c3/attachment-0001.mht
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