I tried VS Profelt on a couple of dampers in a console recently. I used it on two flat dampers next to each other. A string had been broken and missing for some years; it was shared by these two notes. After replacing the missing string, the dampers only contacted the new string, letting the other strings ring. I soaked the two dampers pretty well with VS Profelt and, while they were wet, they damped all strings well. A week later, the client called me back. The two dampers were now buzzing. The ones treated with VS Profelt were the only noisy dampers in the piano. I skinned them using a strip of 150 grit sandpaper and all was well. It did help shape the felt to conform to the strings, but it turned them into Gary Cooper dampers: "Yip, yip..." Bruce Dornfeld, RPT bdornfeld at earthlink.net North Shore Chapter -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090216/d6f80252/attachment.html>
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