Not enough dampers

[Stephen Airy]

My sister's Hallet & Davis 1921 52" upright (used to
be my family's old piano before we got my mom's
PG-150) has 67 dampers (highest note with a damper is
D#-6).
My piano has 66 dampers (highest note with a damper is
D-6).  What I think is interesting about it is that it
has a spoon for D#6.  If the rod extends up to B6 or
C7, is it possible to get damper parts and extend the
dampers higher (up to, say, G#6, or B6?)  (I'm not
sure if there'd be room for the dampers AND the
hammers, though...)

--- Delwin D Fandrich <pianobuilders@olynet.com>
wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Delacour" <JD@Pianomaker.co.uk>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: December 05, 2001 1:12 AM
> Subject: Re: Not enough dampers
> 
> 
> > Just more dampers.  The most I have come across
> are 73 on a Steinway
> > Vertgrand but my own 1905 Lipp upright has 72. 
> I've just taken in
> > another Lipp of 1912, identical in structure but
> with a Fritz & Mayer
> > action instead of a Keller.  This has only 68, and
>  that even number
> > is found on only a few good makes, the norm on
> most commercial pianos
> > being 65 in Europe through most of the century.
> 
> Our upright had--and needed--72. It is my
> impression, though I haven't
> counted them all, that 67 has been the defacto
> standard in the U.S. At least
> for verticals. Sadly, many of them don't need that
> many.
> 
> I do recall going out to take care of a service
> problem on a Wurlitzer--the
> owner was complaining about a factory defect--some
> action parts were
> missing: All those damper up toward the top had been
> left off. It was
> obvious they should be there since the holes had
> been drilled for them.
> Wurlitzer had just introduced semi-automated
> drilling for its action rails
> and it was easier for them to simply continue
> drilling holes for damper
> lever flanges even though they weren't needed.
> 
> Del
> 
> 


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