> bend the damper head so that the front and back of the damper did not contact the string at the same time This will not work in the middle section because the damper effectiveness is based upon both ends of the damper exerting the same pressure on the string. What does work is to trim the trichord felt so there is much less felt left to "bow" the string. I prefer to cut them in a "|/\|" shape, not like "|_/\_|". The flat surfaces of the ""_" " can hang up on the strings so damping does not occur. |o\/o\/o|. I use straight cuticle scissors that are very sharp and tilt them to the inside of the trichord to produce a shorter damper with a nice wedge effect to promote easy seating on the strings. I usefully do this before I install new dampers but I will remove the trichord damper set to trim them then replace them. Newton
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