Hi Terry, I usually use tri-wedges through out the tenor section, but there are some half peddling gains, to be had, using one flat and one tri wedge, down to about mid F. Teble section I use flat sewn damper felt. I think I covered the subject fairly well in my Damper articals. Criteria. mmmmmmmm Let me think. Just experience, the customer and the piano. I know not a very good answer. But always two wedges up to and past mid C. Roger At 12:33 PM 8/23/01 -0400, you wrote: >Hi Roger. What criteria do you use in deciding how far up into the tenor to >go with tri-wedges? I've seen them almost up to the treble, I've seen none >in the tenor, I've seen where the front piece will be tri-wedge and the back >piece will be flat. How to decide??? Thanks for any thoughts. > >Terry Farrell > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "jolly roger" <baldyam@sk.sympatico.ca> >To: <pianotech@ptg.org> >Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 11:27 PM >Subject: Re: bass dampers > > >> Hi Tom, >> Sounds like an unusual configuration, I would go ahead and >> use the traditional materials. I would also consider using tri wedges up >> through the centre section. >> Regards Roger. >> >> >> >> At 10:13 PM 8/22/01 -0400, you wrote: >> >Is it unusual for a grand piano to have two different kind of damper >felts >> on >> >the same string in the bass monochord register? On this piano, each >string >> >has one "traditional" monochord damper felt, with a big V shaped groove >in >> it >> >to fit over the string, and on the other side of the damper, a treble >> >tri-chord damper felt; the kind that's just flat. (This actually >continues >> >up into the bichord register. Same deal: one bichord felt matched with a >> >treble damper.) >> > >> >Since I'm replacing the damper felts on this piano, I'm torn as to >whether I >> >should duplicate this setup or go with matching damper felts. >> > >> >Any thoughts? >> > >> >Tom Sivak >> > >> >
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