Steven, As some others have suggested, I do grand dampers in the piano. But I'd add a step. Before gluing on the felts, I use a block that simulates the thickness of the damper felt to rest under the damper heads on the strings, and roughly time all the dampers, sans felt. Then I regulate the damper wire bends, getting them nice and square with the strings. Then, install the felts with hot hide; the heads clamp and align the dampers. This way, when the felts are glued in, they end up with a nice even overhang on either side of the head, and are about 90% regulated. Some minor tweaking for bleeders follows, but it is very minimal. Neat method I learned from a guy who has done a bazillion (maybe a bazillion and one) sets of dampers. William R. Monroe On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Steven Hopp <hoppsmusic at hotmail.com> wrote: > I'm wondering how many of you glue new damper felt on old heads and wires > with dampers in the piano and/or out? I have a set to do on a newly strung > piano and this is the first set I am attempting. I have Susan Grahms > articles from the PTG technical prep manual and her method and I have a > method and suggestion from a colleague who suggests something different. > > Thoughts? Suggestions? > > Steven Hopp > Midland, TX > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100301/030f6f7b/attachment.htm>
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