[pianotech] Gluing Damper Felt

Terry Farrell mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com
Sat Feb 27 08:24:30 MST 2010


I glue them outside of the piano, but I made myself some little V- 
shaped wooden guides to align the V-shaped felts and the monocord  
felts. Basically does the same thing as putting them on the strings.

Terry Farrell

On Feb 26, 2010, at 9:05 PM, Steven Hopp wrote:

> Grand.  The other method is to glue out of the piano and do the fine  
> tuning with wire bending and felt control of any leaking.  This  
> suggestion is from my friend who does a lot of damper work and is  
> very good at it.
>
> I know the dampers have to come out...they are out now but I guess a  
> better way to say it is do you glue them on the bench or do you  
> follow susan's method of gluing them and then setting them in place  
> letting the weight of the damper head help line up the felt with wire?
>
> Just curious for thoughts.  I think I want to try Susan's method but  
> she does a good job of giving one pause before they proceed....ya  
> know lining up everything to look perfect and so on.
>
> Thanks for any and all thoughts
>
> Steven Hopp
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