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<DIV align=left><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><SPAN=
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><SPAN class=888560817-03112004><FONT=
size=2></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT>Listen...most of us can=
afford more than one mute, but David lives in a depressed area=
and maybe we should all chip in for another mute or maybe even a=
temp strip...;-]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>Seriously...(if that's possible)this is an old=
style tuning technique best left to the past,=
imho. Extremely ineffiecient unless, as David=
apparently has, one has the ability to get it right the first=
time. Otherwise retuning all strings with each tweek=
is...NUTS! again imho. I, on the other=
hand, also tune my unisons as I go but I have an SAT III=
which gets me quickly and accurately in nearly the right place=
every time. Gave up the temp strip years ago when it=
became apparent the middle string was changing by the time I got=
back to bringing in the outside strings. </DIV>
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<DIV align=left>David I.</DIV>
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size=2>----- Original message=
----------------------------------------><BR>From: jason=
kanter <<A=
href="mailto:jkanter@rollingball.com">jkanter@rollingball.com</A=
>><BR>To: Pianotech <<A=
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A>><BR>Rec=
eived: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 09:22:33 -0800<BR>Subject: one rubber=
mute</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><SPAN=
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><SPAN class=888560817-03112004><FONT=
size=2><BR>Dave</FONT> <FONT size=2>Anderson</FONT> <FONT=
size=2>sez</FONT>:</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE:=
12px">I tune A440, then A220 to that, tuning the right string of=
each note first, then the middle, then the left. I check,=
usually with the F3 below, to see that I’m on pitch.<BR>Then I=
go ahead and set the temperament (F3 to F4), putting each note=
in relationship with its neighbors,<SPAN=
class=888560817-03112004> </SPAN>tuning as I go. I make=
small adjustments to the notes through the practice of=
“shimming” the unisons, or “cracking” the unisons: say I’ve got=
4 notes of the temperament tuned, and I decide the 2nd note I=
tuned needs to move a little. I move one outside string=
(usually) a slight, slight bit in the direction I want it to go,=
then match it with the middle string, and check where it is.=
If I like it, I leave it; if I don’t, I move it some=
more.</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><SPAN class=888560817-03112004><FONT=
size=2>WHen I'm in the temperament section, I'm constantly using=
reference strings for checks -- testing fifths with the major=
sixth below the lower note of the fifth, for example. How do you=
do this efficiently using a single rubber mute</FONT>?=
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<DIV><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2>Jason Kanter . piano tuning=
regulation repair</FONT></DIV>
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MS" size=2> . cell 425 830 1561</FONT></DIV>
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