<!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 6.00.2900.2668" name=GENERATOR>
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; =
FONT-FAMILY: Arial"
bottomMargin=7 bgColor=#ffffff leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 =
rightMargin=7>
<DIV>"It has always been looked down upon in the profession here if =
a tuner
still has to use a temperament strip..."</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>What kind of an environment is it where other piano technicians =
watch what
another piano technician does during a tuning? I don't think any tech =
has ever
watched me tune a piano, and only once have I watched someone else tune =
a
piano.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Oh, maybe another tech saw me tune years ago when I was doing some =
floor
tunings at a dealer.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Terry Farrell</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr
style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; =
BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: =
black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=Byeway222@aol.com
href="mailto:Byeway222@aol.com">Byeway222@aol.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 =
size=2>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></FONT></BODY></HTML>