strip muting with sheet metal

[Erwinspiano at aol.com]

Hi
   I have used the supply house flange spacer to do  this job for years.  It 
has  a long handle,will fit into a combo  handle & the tip is wide and very 
thin for inserting the mutes.  QUick  & cheap at twice the price.
  Dale
 
 
 
Once again; I would suggest using a piece of angled aluminum - my piece  is 
about 6-7" long, and an inch wide on either side, at a 90 degree angle;  simply 
lift the dampers with the pedal, slide the aluminum piece in behind and  on 
top of them, and then with a short ruler of some sort  push the strip  down all 
the way underneath the dampers (which are completely protected from  damage 
by the aluminum strip). You can then remove the aluminum and proceed to  tune 
as you normally would. Sheet metal bent at 90 degrees would work also, of  
course. The aluminum is nice and light, though, and just the right  configuration. 



The dampers then work normally, and you can pull out the strip one note  
(actually two) at a time as you work your way up, unmuting one string on each  of 
the two unisons (so you need to have tuned the center string up in the next  
unison before you pull the strip, if you're tuning unisons as you go -  
otherwise, just tune center strings all the way up, and then begin to pull the  strip 
as you tune outside strings to the center strings on the way  up). 


I then only have to use the rubber mute (with the magnet attached on a  
string) on unisons that may slip or need touching up afterwards.


I hope this is helpful.


Allen Wright, RPT



 
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