lotsa dampers

Stephen Airy stephen_airy@yahoo.com
Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:13:12 -0800 (PST)


My piano only has dampers up to D6, but it has a spoon
for D#6 and the rod will reach up to B6 or something
like that.  Is there any way to add a few dampers that
aren't already there?

--- Overs Pianos <sec@overspianos.com.au> wrote:
> Clyde,
> 
> >Today I tuned a Knight console that had dampers up
> to and including B6.
> >I have never seen a piano with more dampers than
> that!
> 
> Pianos with longer sustain require dampers further
> up the treble. The 
> Knight, being a quality instrument with a good
> sustaining treble, 
> would require more dampers than an average
> instrument. The SD-10 we 
> rebuilt back in 1988-90 should really have had more
> dampers than it 
> had - again a great sustaining piano. Our 225 grand
> piano's last 
> damper is at note F#70. It should really have
> between four to six 
> more dampers - certainly four more to A#74.
> 
> Ron O.
> -- 
> 
>         OVERS PIANOS
> Grand piano manufacturers
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> 
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