List, Follow-up to my earlier posting about service on an English over damper piano. I seldom service these so this experience may be atypical . The block on this could not have been more stable. This may have been more like the German versions of these pianos than the typical English that Joe G has described. I had described the pitch raise without the damper assembly in place in an earlier post. After fitting keys and minor action repair and regulation I also tuned before installing the assembly. I strip muted the entire scale and pushed the strip tight against all three strings and between all the unichords in the bass. Essentially all the strings were muted and I had lots of room to operate. I tuned unison by unison with the accutuner reinserting the strip against the tuned strings as I went. Now this was a strictly machine tuning with out aural checks but ended up very acceptable. Without much experience with these pianos I might be off base here, but R and R on the damper assembly was quite easy. As Joe G mentioned once the thing was in tune the damping was pretty good. Certainly it had more "leakage " than a modern piano but it was not the wall of noise I had feared- expected. So happy customer , happy technician and a playable piano. Thanks for your collective advice, Tom Driscoll -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090924/0ce4a0ad/attachment-0001.htm> -------------- next part -------------- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.409 / Virus Database: 270.13.112/2391 - Release Date: 09/23/09 18:00:00
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