Bosendorfer dampers

[Joe & Penny Goss]

Luigi,
Newton has given another good response. If the problem is slight one can
move the strings side to side slightly even where agraffs are used. Sort of
like string leveling to the side.
Joe Goss 
Always on the level and now well traveled.

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> From: Luigi Lamacchia <luigi@inmedia.it>
> To: Santa Lista <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Subject: Bosendorfer dampers
> Date: Friday, March 26, 1999 2:34 PM
> 
> 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
> 
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