Damper "shooshing" noise

[David Denison]

Newton,

Very clever use of keyboard strokes to illustrate your method.
Not to mention it sounds like the right approach to the problem.

Dave Denison, RPT
Long Island, NY

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Newton Hunt <nhunt@jagat.com>
To: <caut@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 9:12 AM
Subject: Re: Damper "shooshing" noise


> 
> 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|.
>