Damper felt replacement

[Roger Jolly]

Hi Richard,
                      No one has mentioned damper follow.  Pressing the 
bass strings with your thumb, your should be able to press the string 
towards the plate about 1/16" to 1/8" and have the damper head follow the 
string.  You will now be sure that the damper felt is resting snugly 
against the string.
Adjusting damper follow, you will now need to do a compete damper 
regulation. Pedal timing, spoons etc.
This is a very common problem.

Regards Roger



At 12:27 PM 6/30/2007, you wrote:
>Last month, I asked advice on replacing damper felts on an upright.  I did 
>the job this week, and want to report my success and ask additional advice.
>
>As per the list's consensus, I used hot hide glue (a mini-slow-cooker was 
>perfect!), practicing my technique on my own piano first!  Things went 
>well, and I'm please with the glue results--both on my piano and the 
>customer's.
>
>I learned an interesting lesson--my piano has 11 single wound strings and 
>21 bichords, more than the 10 and 20 in the box from Schaff.  As soon as I 
>realized that I wouldn't have enough, I saved a couple of each damper 
>before installing on my piano, in case the customer's was the same 
>way.  It, however, had 10 singles and 18 bichords, so I was safe (still 
>short one single for my piano, though!).
>
>On the customer's piano, I was mostly happy with the results of the 
>job.  Each damper, after regulating, effectively stops the string from 
>vibrating, and lifts well away from the string to allow it to sound 
>properly.  However, after damping, there is still a lot of 'ring' in the 
>piano--at least, more than I want--and that is something I was hoping the 
>damper replacement would cure.  Did I not do a good enough job of 
>regulating the dampers (I thought I did--each string/damper worked as I 
>wanted), or is there something else going on?
>
>I solicit your thoughts on this matter.
>Richard Morgan
>
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