Noisy Dampers on Shift

Thomas Cole tcole at cruzio.com
Wed Jul 16 19:27:40 MDT 2008


I'll see if replacing the felt on one damper cures the problem.
Tom

Will Truitt wrote:

> Everybody's suggestions are all worthwhile and should be considered.  
> Just because it's a Fazioli does not mean that it doesn't have hard 
> trichord felt.  It certainly wouldn't be the first new piano with hard 
> felt - I replaced the trichord felts on a less than a year old 
> Steinway B a few years ago under warranty because they were noisy. 
>
>  
>
> And you say "slow release of the key".  I'm not trying to blame the 
> player here, but I think if you release the key slowly enough, just 
> about any piano will " zzzzup".  I would have the player play the note 
> and release in the manner which he normally plays and gets this noise. 
>
>  
>
> It doesn't hurt to state the obvious sometimes too. 
> <http://toolbar.aol.com/tmz/download.html?NCID=aolcmp00050000000014>!
>
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