Damper Zing

Richard Brekne Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no
Fri, 04 Jul 2003 04:37:47 +0200


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Thanks Clark

Obviously I am missing a couple posts.

Cheers... and have fun at the annual bash !

RicB

Clark A Sprague wrote:

>  Richard and All who are apparently not at the big Whatever in
> Dallas,  Thanks for the great advice so far.As I said in a previous
> post, it was the swish, not the zing.  The customer complained that
> whenever he pressed the damper pedal, the strings made this "noise"
> that was driving him crazy.  It was definitely from the dampers
> brushing the strings as they passed upwards, and they are definitely
> hanging below the string level.I figured this out by just laying my
> wide mute strip across the strings in various places until it
> stopped.  I at first thought that it was coming from the bi-chord
> area, but found out differently.        Thanks to one and all for the
> input.  A tech here suggested a surgical supply house.  I thought of
> the scissors that trainers use when taping ankles.  The cutters
> extend  out from the handle at an angle.  I hadn't thought of the
> flush cutters as being sharp enough to do a clean cut.  That is a good
> idea.   And I bet cheaper that a surgical supply house!Clark Sprague

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