damper problem, solution

[Jim Harvey]

At 08:12 PM 8/19/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>The problem is in the agraff section of the trichords. I discovered that 
>the problem was not so much string leveling, but string spacing, as Mary 
>suggested. But instead of working with the dampers, I put a screw driver 
>between the agraff of the adjacent string and the right string that was 
>ringing, and twisted the screw driver. This brought the right string 
>closer to the middle. That solved the problem.
>
>It is still a mystery why the right string kept ringing only with the 
>shift engaged. During normal playing all three strings are activated by 
>the hammer. And with the shift only the middle and right strings ring. So 
>why is only the right string ringing?

Wim, while you are mystifying, consider that no one suggested the repair 
method that you elected to use.

-jh-