maddening dampers

[Joseph Alkana]

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David,
Just curious, did you try each string for dampening quality and if so =
were there any differences?
Joseph Alkana  RPT
josephspiano@home.com
  ----- Original Message -----=20
  From: Dave Nereson=20
  To: pianotech@ptg.org=20
  Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 1:55 AM
  Subject: maddening dampers


  Damper not damping.  Grand or upright?  Doesn't matter -- happens on =
both.
  Press the strings.  Plenty of follow.  Check lift with pedal.  OK.  =
Lift
  with key.  OK.  String level. OK.  Regulation, alignment, seating, OK.
  Softness vs. crustiness.  OK.  But it doesn't damp.  Check for =
sympathetic
  ringing on other strings, but no, it's this damper.  Take it off, =
needle or
  fluff up the area not damping.  Put back on.  Still doesn't damp.  Try
  pushing or pulling strings in/out, to change the string level.  =
Doesn't
  work.  Put strings back.  Still doesn't damp. Take it back off, peel =
off a
  thin layer of felt.  Put back on.  Still doesn't damp.  Getting
  mad/frustrated now.  Have tried all tricks learned in PTG chapter
  technicals, Journal articles, and convention classes.  Doesn't =
damp(en).
  Decide to replace the felt with brand new.  Do so;  re-check align, =
seating,
  regulation.  Still doesn't damp.  Well, it does, but not as well as =
the
  other (old) ones.  WHY?!!  WHY?!!  WHY?!!  Decide the felt must need =
time to
  settle into the strings.  Glad it's not for a concert that starts in =
five
  minutes.  Still need to hear some damper secrets that in 20 years of
  classes, articles, and technicals, I haven't heard or seen.      =
Sincerely,
  David Nereson, RPT, Denver



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