[CAUT] Steinway damper felt

[Dennis Johnson]

Hi Paul.

Thanks, and all the above.  Only a few wires didn't need complete travel
adjustments and I'm cutting off bad felt as I go.  Some are replaced, others
just flipped around.  I only move unison wires sideways if I can visually
confirm an inconsistent gap.  It's almost done now.  I guess my venting was
more about these little problems that add up to more hours than we have
available to fix them.  This piano isn't even the one I'm worried about. It
will get done, but there's another one waiting and now it's time to start
tuning. The Yamaha lease program was cut so these rebuilds are needed asap.


thanks,

Dennis.
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On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Paul T Williams <
pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu> wrote:

> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Anything else?
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> Tell me more...
> Paul
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>  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
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> Hi-
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> 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.
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> Dennis.
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