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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;color:navy'>I watched this guy strip<br>
mute the entire piano... took him ten minutes all in all. I just
didnt<br>
( and still dont) get the point. Seems counter productive to me.</span></font><span
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style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></font><font color=navy
face=Tahoma><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
color:navy'>Ten minutes??!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Probably more like 3, max.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It takes me about 1 min.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Well,
here, lemme go time myself on my piano which is sitting right over there . . .
. .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Nope, I overestimated.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It was only 45 seconds.</span></font><font
color=navy face=Tahoma><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
color:navy;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;margin-left:40.8pt;border:none;mso-border-left-alt:solid #CCCCCC .75pt;
padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt'><font size=3 color=navy
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Tahoma;color:navy'>I’ve tuned both ways (unisons as you go and unisons after
all the center strings are tuned) and I don’t find unisons-as-you-go to be any
more stable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Unless the pitch was
way off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>But in that case, I do a
pitch correction anyhow, which gets everything close enough that it doesn’t
matter when the unisons are tuned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>A few beats difference in pitch between unison strings isn’t enough
tension difference to make the wire pull through two bridge pins and around the
hitch pin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>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.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>And don’t counter with a reply citing
statistics from a major pitch correction of ALL the strings. <span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></font><font color=navy
face=Tahoma><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
color:navy;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;margin-left:40.8pt;border:none;mso-border-left-alt:solid #CCCCCC .75pt;
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face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Tahoma;color:navy'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>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.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span></span></font><font color=navy face=Tahoma><span
style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:navy;mso-color-alt:
windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt'><font size=3 color=navy
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Tahoma;color:navy'>-- David Nereson, RPT</span></font><font color=navy
face=Tahoma><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
color:navy;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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