Damper noise

[Stéphane Collin]

Thanks Wim.

And sorry for being redundant.  But I tried first to search the archives, and the system is so slow, and it failed twice when searching.  So ...

Stéphane.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Wimblees@AOL.COM>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 9:17 PM
Subject: Re: Damper noise


| In a message dated Thu, 29 Aug 2002 20:10:37 +0200, collin.s@skynet.be writes:
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| > Hi List
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| > Are there any tricks to reduce the ennoying noise of bass and tenor dampers when they return to rest on the vibrating 
| > string ?
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| > Thanks for any idea.
| > 
| > Stéphane Collin.
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| This has been brought up before. You can "voice" the felts. On the bichords, file the sides and needle them with your voicing tool. It really softens the felts, and reduces the noise. On the unichords, use a rat tail file, and then voice. 
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| Wim
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