[pianotech] Tuning my first Overdamper piano - something else<G>

[Joseph Garrett]

Richard said: "This sounds very long-winded, tipping the action every time
you pull the 
strip mute- for setting unisons. In order to keep the damping tidy you 
usually have to secure the end buttons/clips as well. I suppose we are so 
used to overdampers over here that, as David Boyce says, we get used to one 
Papps wedge and find that the gentle stroking of the wedge over the strings 
soon tells us when to push the wedge in. Like all tuning techniques, it is 
frustrating at first but soon becomes second nature and very fast."

Richard,
That's all well and good for experienced tuners. However, on this side of
the pond, most beginning tuners are the ones who get the call todo this
work, since the experienced ones refuse to even look at such.
Just My Take On IT,
Joe


Joe Garrett, R.P.T.
Captain of the Tool Police
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