[CAUT] Steinway damper felt

[Paul T Williams]

Sounds like a bad set of dampers.  Do you have some Yamaha style dampers 
on hand for the sad ones?  I've had great results from them. 

If you're in a pinch, have you tried slicing the trichords down the middle 
and introducing some yarn or small thread up in there to widen the gap? 
Audry Karibenus in Seattle offered me this bit of advise years and years 
ago if you're getting some "leaking" from one string or another. Or, you 
can string hook a bit on the side of the bad string toward the middle to 
bring the 3 closer together, but I don't really like doing that as it 
might cause a false beat. 

Is this section-wide, or just a couple?  You may also need, being a new 
back action, need some re-bending of guide rail wires, and you might be 
happy how fast a weird noise goes away. New damper actions are a bear! 
Recheck the travel of the wires.

Anything else?

Tell me more...
Paul








From:
Dennis Johnson <johnsond at stolaf.edu>
To:
College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org>
Date:
08/16/2010 03:55 PM
Subject:
[CAUT] Steinway damper felt



Hi-

We've been over this topic many times, and I'm on record saying that I 
usually use something else.  So... here I am taking an entire day trying 
to install a set of factory dampers on an important piano with new 
backaction and getting frustrated so time to vent.  The trichord felt 
isn't even cut down the center!  What a mess.  Way too much was booked 
into this brief summer and all the work is not getting done.  I'll have to 
break that news tomorrow and not looking forward to it.  We're going to be 
one faculty grand short come beginning of school because it's still out of 
service and I don't have enough hours.  

Dennis.  


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