<div dir="ltr">Me too...mostly. Strip muting is always faster for me. I do occasionally like to tune with two mutes. But the piano has to already be very close in tune for that to work well.<div><br></div><div style><br></div> </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Ron Nossaman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rnossaman@cox.net" target="_blank">rnossaman@cox.net</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 1/12/2013 6:24 PM, <a href="mailto:tnrwim@aol.com" target="_blank">tnrwim@aol.com</a> wrote:<br> <br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> From that day on I stopped stripping the piano. Not only did it take 10<br> minutes off my tuning time, but my unisons were much better, and the<br> piano was much more stable. I now even do a pitch raise without a strip<br> mute. But what's so ironic, I now actually take longer to tune, because<br> after I use my SAT, I retune the piano aurally, again only using<br> mutes. I think it has made me a much better tuner.<br> </blockquote> <br></div> So you saved ten minutes by not strip muting, but you take longer to tune because you tune aurally after you tune with your SAT. Yea, makes perfect sense. Why don't you just tune aurally in the first place and save a whole bunch of time?<div class="im"> <br> <br> <br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> For those of you "old timers" who say your too old to change,<br> </blockquote> <br></div> Whoever THEY are. And it's "you're", not your.<br> <br> Personally, I strip mute the entire piano because I like it and it works. I used to tune from the temperament octave down, and up, chasing a mute. Then one day I decided to try strip muting everything. My tuning got both better and faster as a result and though a lot of details have changed, I've stayed with the strip mutes because it continues to work for me.<br> Ron N<br> </blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div>John Formsma, RPT<br></div><div>Blue Mountain, MS</div> </div>