<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Re: one rubber mute</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <BLOCKQUOTE>>Serious= ly...(if that's possible)this is an old style tuning technique best left to = the past, imho. I’m so glad that’s only your OPINION, mon frere, with no actual= basis in fact. It was adequate for every single luminous, musical, precise,= stable tuning on earth until very, very recently.  >Extremely ineffiecient unless, as David apparently has, one has t= he ability to get it right the first time.   Uhh...that’s the general idea—to get it either right or super c= lose; but the art of shimming unisons, well-learned and practiced, speeds th= ings up and moves thing along exponentially. As you learn to trust your body= more, your ears more, and don’t have to rely so much on tests, things= get quicker as well.  As I said before, I can put a stone-solid, singi= ng concert tuning on any piano that’s on or real close to pitch in 80-= 90 minutes. Viva old school, bubba. David Andersen </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>