Upright Damper Blocks

Horace Greeley hgreeley@leland.Stanford.EDU
Tue, 11 Mar 1997 10:05:55 -0700


Bill & Newton,

I seem to remember that the Yamaha blocks worked.

Horace



>Bill,
>
>I did one of those beasties and am going to do another.  Forget using APSCos
>blocks.  The angles of the holes are wrong.
>
>Forget cutting dowels and get the regular dowels with blocks from supply
>house.  If you need to cut shim stock to glue between block and damper to
>get the proper length from string to wire hole.
>
>These systems are such a royal pain in the backside that I would do anything
>and verything possible to make the job as painless as possible.
>
>I just traded a grand and upright regulation for an old 1916 S&S 52" upright
>that I am going to redo for sale or for home.  I will NOT do this one the
>way I did the last one.
>
>        Newton
>        nhunt@jagat.com




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