Bosendorfer dampers

[Jon Page]

At 10:34 PM 3/26/99 +0100, you wrote:
>Holy List, please help me !
>I'm running into trouble with the bass dampers of a Bosendorfer 170. As the
>felt had become noisy, I substituted them all. Everithing was fine but the
>bass bichords. The decay time is too long. Everything regulated, the damper
>heads work 90 degrees to the strings, open regularly, etc., but if you play
>"staccato", the fundamental and the 2° harmonic take too long to decay. I
>tried many things, i.e. different lenght of the felt, different position,
>squeezed the felt to make it enter a little more into the bichords, but
>nothing made it fine. Besides that, my customer says that it's not working
>as well as before...
>But before it was too noisy, and it has never had a good damping on the
>bass, so now I must do something resolutive !
>In the LIST we trust...
>
>Thank you !
>Luigi Lamacchia
>www.inmedia.it/lamacchia
> 

Are the underlevers sluggish? Perhaps they require repinning or at least
sizing & lubrication.

Do the underlevers have assist sprimgs? This would make a big improvement.

Regards,
  

Jon Page
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net)
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