Hateful little F DAMPER

Vincent E. Mrykalo mrykalve@potsdam.edu
Tue, 5 Nov 2002 15:33:55 -0400


Try moving the hole a little, enough for the wire to clear the string 
a little more.

>Hello All,
>     Any tricks out there from those who have truly mastered dampers? 
>Lowest tenor F damper on S&S Ds??  Certain seasons, the guide rail 
>grows longer putting the wire too close to the string so it zings. 
>I fix it and then the damper doesn't work so good.  I always end up 
>slicing trichord felt deeper, bending wire this or that way, playing 
>around, sticking thread between the felt, poking with needles, 
>crying, and eventually replacing felt.   I'm getting tired of it.  I 
>extended with a longer felt so it is almost under the brace, and the 
>damper works fine except I'm getting about 1/2 second sing from the 
>5th partial.  I've replaced and messed with this so much, I don't 
>really have a record of the original location and length of felt, 
>though it never did work good anyway.  Ideas?  Has anyone ever made 
>an extension like an overdamper?
>-Mike
>
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Vince Mrykalo RPT MPT
Senior Piano Technician
Crane School of Music

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