On Mon, 11 Mar 1996 10:30:17 -0700 (MST), you wrote and I quote: :I am asking this question for a fellow technician who does not have net :access. He has a piano to service that has one of these tops that is :hinged so that it folds back in half. Some water dripped down through :the crack and got onto some of the damper felts. It missed the hammers, :but affected the dampers. Now, they make that "yick" noise when they :contact the strings, when the key is released, making us think they have :gotten hard. Is there any way to re-soften them. I have tried needling :them, but with almost no success. I have heard that lanolin can be :brushed into them, but want to confirm that it works before trying it. :Or, must he just replace them? There was nothing wrong with them before :contact with the water. : IMHO by the time he gets through trying this, that and the other to soften the hardened damper felts, he could have installed a complete new set of damper felts in far less time, with far less frustration, with positive results that will please the customer. As I said, IMHO. Ty Fairchild
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