I watched this guy strip mute the entire piano... took him ten minutes all in all. I just didnt ( and still dont) get the point. Seems counter productive to me. Ten minutes??!! Probably more like 3, max. It takes me about 1 min. Well, here, lemme go time myself on my piano which is sitting right over there . . . . . Nope, I overestimated. It was only 45 seconds. Ive tuned both ways (unisons as you go and unisons after all the center strings are tuned) and I dont find unisons-as-you-go to be any more stable. Unless the pitch was way off. But in that case, I do a pitch correction anyhow, which gets everything close enough that it doesnt matter when the unisons are tuned. A few beats difference in pitch between unison strings isnt enough tension difference to make the wire pull through two bridge pins and around the hitch pin. Nor does a few beats difference in pitch on a few strings here and there change the downward pressure on the soundboard enough to affect stability. And dont counter with a reply citing statistics from a major pitch correction of ALL the strings. The point (of strip muting) for me is to avoid the tedium of pounding the same note over and over as you tune all three strings in a row, instead of spreading the tedium out over time in order to keep your sanity. -- David Nereson, RPT -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070302/ab39e146/attachment.html
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