<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000066"> Julia, yet another opinion.. Garland Goodwin and Tom Driscoll both have excellent suggestions. Take theirs into serious consideration. The mute strip works great, and do not burn any bridges with a Kawai dealership. Both of these gentlemen(Garland anyway!) beat me to the computer to reply, but I agree with their comments 100%. Phil Bondi(Fl) </body> </html>