Hamburg Damper Felts

[Paul E. Dempsey]

For whatever it is worth, I just finished installing a set of Pianoteks
pre-cut sets ( don't have the part #-sorry)
on a Chickering (1950's) grand .

Usually these older  Chickerings have given me fits in the split wedge
trichord section because the spacing between the  tri-chords is narrower
than most.

These dampers went on like a dream, with very little "tweaking" needed. Not
exactly a D. but good felt is good felt.

Paul E. Dempsey
Marshall University
Huntington WV
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Minor" <jminor@uiuc.edu>
To: <caut@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 12:22 PM
Subject: Hamburg Damper Felts


> Just finished installing a new set of damper felts on the Hamburg D here.
> I'm just not happy with the quality of the Hamburg damper felts from
> Steinway these days. Anyone else tire of fighting with these to get them
> to work? The bichords seem to be thicker, leaving the damper heads higher
> than their neighbors. Even using a piece of yarn in the trichords that
> leak through, they still work only with a great deal of fussing and
> cussing!*#@
>
> Anyone find a better supplier of damper felts?
>
> John Minor
> University of Illinois
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