Calling all Damper experts... lend me your advice. Tuned a Baldwin studio model; about 15 years old. It has been moved several times. Not tuned for several years. Tuned up nicely. But... got called back because the bass dampers were not damping the sound. Several white key were not being damped after playing. All black keys seemed to damp except for D#3. I did some wire bending and got all to damp pretty well except for G 1. This is the lowest bi-chord on this piano. Could not get it to damp at all. Del Fandrich mentioned at a PTG mtg in Portland that increasing the mass of the damper by adding some weight could be a help in damping problems. Should I explore this??? I had hoped (and expected) that the problem would be the adjustment of the bass damper pedal. No such luck. The bass dampers barely move off of the string with the pedal, and not much better with the key. Movement measures about 1 mm. The lowest dampers move more than the upper Bass dampers. The uneveness of this concerns me. They should all be about the same for that section of the piano. Obviously there is some serious damper adjustment needed. The middle and upper sections of the piano have no problem. And of course it has to be the piano of a friend, and the friend is a music teacher. Why couldn't it have been owned by a stranger in a strange land? AARRRGGGHHHH. What say ye??? Ed Carwithen John Day, OR
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