This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Well it's certainly my opinion that dampers stop too soon on the B. We have a new one in a piano professor's studio and for some reason E6 really rings when you play C5. The only thing I could do was to stretch the tuning of E6 a little so it didn't ring quite as badly. It was the 5th partial of C5 making the 2nd partial of E6 ring so stretching a little helped just enough to stop the complaints. =20 dp =20 David M. Porritt dporritt@smu.edu ________________________________ From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Wimblees@aol.com Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 12:19 PM To: caut@ptg.org Subject: [CAUT] damper question =20 One of our piano profs complained that F6 on her B was not damping. She has been playing this piano, and other B's, not to mention D's and other pianos, for I don't know how long, (she's about 75 years old). But now, all of a sudden, she complains that the note is not damping. Go figure.=20 =20 But this kind of got me interested in something. I looked at other pianos, from small spinets to concert grands, and noticed that dampers end anywhere from D6 - G6. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason or pattern where they end. So my question is, is there a "rule of thumb," or something much more sophisticated, to tell an scaler or piano engineer where to stop the dampers? =20 Wim=20 Willem Blees, RPT Piano Tuner/Technician School of Music University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/a0/cb/b4/c5/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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