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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle16><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=black
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black'>-----Original
Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> pianotech-bounces@ptg.org
[mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf
Of </span></b>pianotune05@comcast.net<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, February 15, 2007
7:48 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> pianotech@ptg.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> muting etc.</span></font><font
color=navy><span style='color:navy;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Hi Everyone,</span></font><font
color=navy><span style='color:navy;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>I tuned a piano today that
I found difficult to keep the felt from coming out when I strip muted it.
The space between the outside of the strings and the plate was too
shallow. What do you guys do in that situation?</span></font><font
color=navy><span style='color:navy;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle16><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><span style='mso-tab-count:
1'> </span>A
rubber temperament strip might stay put better than a felt one –Schaff sells
‘em, or used to , anyway—although I don’t have one and have never tried
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>When the strings are too close
to the plate, I just use rubber mutes and tune unisons as I go.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I’ve also been known to stick a dozen
rubber mutes in there to get the temperament set, then do unisons – there’s
always a way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font><font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'> </span></font><font color=navy><span
style='color:navy;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Does anyone here go from
left string to middle to right when tuning rather than strip muting? I do
this in the area close to the trebble where the dampers are too close so as not
to mangle them.</span></font><font color=navy><span style='color:navy;
mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle16><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>Yes, lots of technicians
tune without temperament strips, tuning unisons as they go, with every
imaginable variation on tuning sequence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>“Treble” has only one ‘b.’<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font><font
color=navy><span style='color:navy;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font><font
color=navy><span style='color:navy;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>I also had a strange
occurance </span></font><font color=navy><span style='color:navy'>[that’s
‘occurence’] </span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'>todaya</span></font><font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'> </span></font><font color=black><span
style='color:black'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>while
tuning. When I made the d#3 d# octave pure the d#g was beating
too slow. When I corrected this, the octave was way off. Any ideas?</span></font><font
color=navy><span style='color:navy;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle16><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>Whaaaaaat?!<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The “d#3 d#” doesn’t make sense.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>You mean d#3 to d#2 or to d#4?<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>And “d#g” could be a third or a sixth,
depending which g you mean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle16><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><span style='mso-tab-count:
1'> </span>--David
Nereson, RPT<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Thanks.</span></font><font
color=navy><span style='color:navy;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Marshall</span></font><font
color=navy><span style='color:navy;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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