Mark- Your "after-ring" could be a sympathetic vibration from the A5 partial of the A3 tenor string. If this is the source of the "after-ring", you can get rid of it by tilting the damper head in a different fashion so that the front damper wedge contacts the string differently. The phenomenon I refer to -- and probably what's happening in your piano -- is akin to the harmonics a guitar or violinist can excite by touching strings lightly at or near a node. Ken Sloane, Oberlin Conservatory ------------------- --On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 12:24 PM -0600 "Mark Cramer" <cramer@BrandonU.CA> wrote: > No reslove to the after-ring yet. Thanks for the responses though. This AM > left little time to experiment. > > Anyone notice how "needs immediate attention" changes to "maybe later" when > your service time threatens to overlap someone's piano useage time? > > I've muted each speaking and duplex (front and rear) individually, but found > no culprit. The braided back lengths are muting properly (pluck-tested), > and all dampers seem to be damping, including A-5. > > When I can book some intimate, quality-time with divine Miss"D," I will > braid a temp. strip through the tenor back-lengths (all strings), braided > section first, then up thru the tenor duplex. We'll see. > > BTW,have checked cabinet and related parts to no avail (yet). The ring is > quite strong however (great sustain) sounds most "string-like," even has a > nice 4bps beat. > > Will keep you informed. > > Mark > Brandon University >
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