---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I have been led to believe, as I am sure you are too, that damper felts will harden when they get wet. I just restrung a 30 year old B, and was going to replace the damper felts. I took the dampers home and gave them a shower. (I soak them in the shower with hot water. It loosens the glue so the felts drop off easily). The next morning I got sidelined, and it wasn't until later in the next I had time to take the felts off. By this time, however, the glue had hardened again, and I had to cut the felts off with a knife. I soon realized that I forgot that I had replaced these dampers about a year and half ago. So they were virtually brand new. But when I touched the felt, they all seemed very soft. I had only removed the felt off the last 6 dampers, so I thought, what the hell, lets try putting them on the piano, and see how they work. I did, and they are fine. None of them are hard. So my conclusion is that new felts can get wet, and still work. You learn something new every day. Amazing, but true. Wim ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/0b/12/bc/12/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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