<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2627" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Matthew: you can learn to "tune out" = the bleed through and tune well enough for a pitch raise. If the bleed through is = really bad on one note I will stick a rubber mute in to help the strip mute do = its job. Total accuracy is not vital here - we are just trying to get the overall = tension close enough to make the final tuning possible.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Patrick C. Poulson<BR>Registered Piano Technician<BR>Piano Technicians Guild</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>