<HTML style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><HEAD><TITLE>Re: not what I signed up for</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1476" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><BR> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid"><FONT size=2> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#808080 size=2><EM>David Andersen wrote:</EM></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Verdana color=#808080 size=2><EM>Here’s what I know: doing single-mute, aural, whole-tone, open-string tuning has exponentially expanded my ear’s ability to remember piano tone, and made me a better voicer; it’s made me a MUCH better unison tuner, much more precise.</EM></FONT></DIV> <DIV><EM><FONT face=Verdana></FONT></EM> </DIV> <DIV><EM><FONT face=Verdana></FONT></EM> </DIV> <DIV><EM><FONT face=Verdana>I appoligize for my ignorance, but could you explain the difference of " single mute, whole-tone, open-string tuning"  versus any other method ( such as felt strip muting ) i presume??</FONT></EM></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks much</DIV> <DIV><EM><FONT face=Verdana size=2></FONT></EM> </DIV></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>