Hi Marshall,I did not catch if this is a drop action or not. Try this if an upright. First push in on the bass strings without lifting the dampers to see the amount of damper head follow. If not enough, remove the action and pinch each damper felt at its base close to where it is glued on to the damper block with duck billed or parallel pliers. This will sometimes soften the felt as well as give you a little extra length improving damper function Joe Goss BSMusEd MMusEd RPT imatunr at srvinet.com www.mothergoosetools.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Marshall Gisondi To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 9:27 PM Subject: [pianotech] ringing dampers I forgot one thing I forgot to mention, I did loosen and tighten the sustain pedal and while it was loosened, it still had quite an afterring. It also had too much sloppiness in the pedal. I'm leaning towrd the crud on the damper felt and/or springs because when I masaged the flat sewn felt on one of the dampers, it seemed to quite it down a little. the dampers also strum the string when I press the key ever so lightly on some notes. It's quite interesting Marshall Marshall Gisondi Piano Technician Marshall's Piano Service pianotune05 at hotmail.com 215-510-9400 Graduate of The School of Piano Technology for the Blind www.pianotuningschool.org Vancouver, WA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100225/5519b29b/attachment.htm>
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