<font color='black' size='2' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'> <div>Duaine</div> <div> </div> <div>Why did you take out the dampers? I is difficult, but the easiest way, using a SAT and without a strip mute, is to put a rubber mute through the action to dampen one of the strings for each note. </div> <div> </div> <div>Wim<br> <br> </div> <div style="CLEAR: both"> <div> </div> </div> <br> <br> <div style="FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">-----Original Message-----<br> From: Duaine Hechler <dahechler@att.net><br> To: pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org><br> Sent: Fri, Jan 6, 2012 8:22 pm<br> Subject: [pianotech] Tuned my first "bird-cage" piano<br> <br> <div style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif; COLOR: #000; FONT-SIZE: 12px" id=AOLMsgPart_0_e8dd03c9-b161-4fd2-b587-7bc302b52a14><PRE style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><TT>Tuned my first "bird-cage" piano - a Chappell & Co. At first, I thought I would try it without taking out the dampers. Quickly found that the dampers had to go. THAT was quite a challenge tuning with the whole piano zinging. Quickly figured out that the quieter I played each note the less zing you would get. Dang I wish I had a strip mute. -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing& Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 <A href="mailto:dahechler@att.net">dahechler@att.net</A> <A href="http://www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com/" target=_blank>www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com</A> -- Home& Business user of Linux - 11 years </TT></PRE></div> </div> </font>