damper assist spring for spinet

[Nichols]

Keith,

     Ingenuity is often tied to budget. That repair didn't require removal 
of the action. A regular damper repair spring might not have, either, but 
would have been a booger with the action in place.
    I had a reallllly cheap once-every-five-year-kinda customer with a 
couple of broken spinet bass damper springs that said she'd just live with 
the ringing. I didn't want to justify her cheapness (not poor...... just 
cheap) by doing a "freebie", so I stretched a rubber band across from the 
neighbors' levers, right at the top of the wood. With the two strands 
firmly behind (towards the player) the wire of the sick dampers, they sorta 
worked! 30 seconds, more-or-less, and she still wanted a  discount due to 
the pianos' size.
    Takes all kinds. Keeps us in the game, no?

later,
Guy


At 08:22 PM 12/3/2004 -0600, you wrote:
>List,
>
>Here is an interesting fix on this Gulbransen spinet.
>
>Instead of using this Repair Damper Spring at the damper flange where it 
>was designed to go, some person just attached it to the damper stop rail 
>instead.
>
>The ingenuity of some folks never ceases.
>
>Keith
>--
>Keith McGavern
>Registered Piano Technician
>Oklahoma Chapter 731
>Piano Technicians Guild
>USA
>
>
>
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