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<DIV>Jim - according to Homers' "Iliad" the real men ran the Olympics in =
the
nude..... read on! :-)</DIV>
<DIV>Michael G.(UK)</DIV>
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black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=jim@pianoguy.com href="mailto:jim@pianoguy.com">Jim</A> =
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title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, July 21, 2005 =
1:30
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Strip mutes was . . =
Re: Moving
from Uprights to Grands</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>There's something a bit odd in ignoring a tool invented to assist =
in
providing a better service simply to satisfy some misplaced sence of =
elite-ism
. . . </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>"Only 'real' men run the olympics in their bare feet . . the =
imposters
use running shoes . . ??"</DIV>
<DIV>Whatever !!</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><BR>Jim Kinnear<BR>"A man is about as big as the things that make =
him
angry." -- Winston Churchill<BR></DIV>
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<A title=Byeway222@aol.com
href="mailto:Byeway222@aol.com">Byeway222@aol.com</A> </DIV>
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title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, July 21, 2005 =
8:06
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Moving from =
Uprights to
Grands</DIV>
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<DIV>Hi, Susan and Michael et al,</DIV>
<DIV>The whole business of strip muting for either the temperament =
octave or
even into the further reaches of the piano has alway been =
controversial here
in UK. Probably like Michael I was trained very
traditionally, to discard the strip mute quite early on and =
rely on
one's ear for laying the temperament with just two wedges. It =
has
always been looked down upon in the profession here if a tuner =
still
has to use a temperament strip, almost suggesting that his/her ear =
is not
reliable enough to do without it. The analogy being a baby's =
walking
frame I suppose! Because of this early influence I =
can
actually feel 'ashamed' if I resort to using a strip =
or rubber
gang mute on a difficult piano. Do i need psychoanalysis? =
However, I
could actually argue pretty stongly in favour of using them =
with very
small grands and uprights where inharmonicity is so pronounced that =
setting
an acceptable temperament can take more than one pass, and using =
this aid
would be quicker. When this topic comes under discussion over =
here it
is generally argued that the temperament is not exactly the same =
when you
return to complete the unisons and that the whole excercise can be =
more time
consuming.</DIV>
<DIV>It would be interesting to know what proportion of tuners is =
'mute
free'</DIV>
<DIV>Ric</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></BODY></HTML>