<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">David,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I'm interested to hear that someone else uses this method in the treble; it's one my mentor showed many years ago, and which I've always felt has saved me innumerable hassles involving the rubber mute in that area. I use a piece of angled aluminum to protect the dampers. Where did you learn this trick? And have you seen others using it?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I'm curious why you feel you need to depress the damper pedal up there - aren't they all just damper flats, anyway? No danger of pinching wedges or anything. And also, why isn't it useful if you tune unisons as you go? I do it all the time - when I'm doing pitch raises, for example, and just pull the strip out for one note at a time as I go up. Or, if I'm tuning the center string only, and want to go back after and tune the two outside strings of the unison - I just pull out the strip one note at a time. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean in describing your method.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Whenever I see somebody using a mute in the high treble, and tediously moving it one note at a time, I want to mention this trick. I don't strip mute at all in grands anymore, but use a split mute and tune unisons as I go. but in uprights strip muting has always seemed so much more efficient, since gravity isn't on our side, and using a mute is so tricky. I also like having a magnet on the end of a string connected to my rubber mute, to prevent it falling into the bottom of the piano. Quality of life things...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Sincerely,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Allen Wright, RPT<DIV><DIV><DIV>On 25 Feb 2007, at 19:19, David Nereson wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV class="Section1"><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN class="EmailStyle15"><FONT size="3" color="navy" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-font-size:12.0pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN class="EmailStyle15"><FONT color="black"><SPAN style="mso-ansi-font-size:12.0pt;color:black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; ">The main thing I don’t like about tuning Wurtilizers [sic] is that the upper part of the plate in the treble has a raised area that’s too close to the strings and makes it almost impossible to get a strip of muting felt to stay put.</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; ">(I mute all the way to the top.</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; ">Above the treble break, I insert the strip just above the dampers, then press the damper pedal, insert a piece of sheet metal between the dampers and the strings, to protect the damper felts, then shove the muting strip down far enough to clear the hammers, and pull out the piece of sheet metal, which has the top edge bent over to act as a handle.</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; ">I depress the damper pedal of course when removing the strip.</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; ">This method isn’t useful if you tune unisons as you go.)</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "> </SPAN></SPAN><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN class="EmailStyle15"><FONT size="3" color="black" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-font-size:12.0pt;color:black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; ">--David Nereson, RPT</SPAN><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN class="EmailStyle15"><FONT size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; 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font-size: 13.3333px; "> pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [<A href="mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org">mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org</A>]</SPAN><B style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; font-weight: bold; "><SPAN style="font-weight:bold; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; font-weight: bold; ">On Behalf Of </SPAN></SPAN></B><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; "><A href="mailto:pianotune05@comcast.net">pianotune05@comcast.net</A></SPAN><BR style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; "><B style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; font-weight: bold; "><SPAN style="font-weight:bold; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; font-weight: bold; ">Sent:</SPAN></SPAN></B><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; "> Saturday, February 24, 2007 2:50 PM</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; "><B style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; font-weight: bold; "><SPAN style="font-weight:bold; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; font-weight: bold; ">To:</SPAN></SPAN></B><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; "> <A href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A></SPAN><BR style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; "><B style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; font-weight: bold; "><SPAN style="font-weight:bold; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; font-weight: bold; ">Subject:</SPAN></SPAN></B><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; "> Wurly</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "><FONT size="3" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "> </SPAN><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "><FONT size="3" color="black" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; ">I found Wurlys a pain to tune, but not as muuch so as some others. They sure do have a lot of false beats however.</SPAN></SPAN></FONT><FONT color="black"><SPAN style="color:black; mso-color-alt:windowtext; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "><FONT size="3" color="black" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; ">Marshall</SPAN></SPAN></FONT><FONT color="black"><SPAN style="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Allen Wright</DIV><DIV>6 Clay Court, 219 Long Lane</DIV><DIV>London SE1 4PB</DIV><DIV>United Kingdom</DIV><DIV>020 7378 8265 </DIV><DIV>0780-688-1325 (mobile)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>