[pianotech] Old uprights replace w/ longer dampers?

[David Ilvedson]

Just find Bill Spurlocks articles in the Journal on upright dampers.   You will learn how to make your own bass dampers of the correct length...I think 2 & 3/8".   1 inch dampers don't make it...

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

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From: KeyKat88 at aol.com
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Received: 2/26/2010 5:46:56 AM
Subject: [pianotech] Old uprights replace w/ longer dampers?


>Greetings, 
> 
>      Is it a good idea to replace old upright damper felts with longer 
>ones to cover more nodes?  Could longer ones cause more problems than using the 
>size that was originally there?
> 
>Julia Gottschall
>Reading, PA