bass dampers - question about trichord wedges

[Stephen Airy]

My Ricca & Son has monochords from A1-F#10, bichords
from G11-B27, and triple-string plain notes (trichords
-- not sure if you use it universally or only for
wound trichords) from C28-C88.  The break is at
B27/C28 and all trichords are plain wire.  Currently
all my trichord dampers are flat felt and all my
bichord and monochord are wedges.  I was wondering --
up to approximately how far would you recommend
putting trichord wedge dampers in?  I have no plans to
rescale my piano (as in replace trichord plain notes
with bichord wound notes).  I currently have a set of
50 flat felt dampers (way more than enough) so I can
replace those, but I don't yet have the wedges.  What
do you think the approximate cost of the wedges would
be?

--- Jon Page <jon.page@verizon.net> wrote:
> At 10:13 PM 08/22/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> >Since I'm replacing the damper felts on this piano,
> I'm torn as to whether I
> >should duplicate this setup or go with matching
> damper felts.
> >
> >Any thoughts?
> >
> >Tom Sivak
> 
> Match the felts, don't repeat someone else's lame
> idea/mistake.
> 
> Get them travelling straight and don't forget to
> rebush the guide rails.
> 
> Regards,
> Jon Page,   piano technician
> Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass.
> mailto:jon.page@verizon.net
> http://www.stanwoodpiano.com
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


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