Square grand bichord damper felt supplier inquiry

[Farrell]

I agree, Yamaha damper felt is very nice indeed. Just have the serial number
for that Yamaha square grand you are working on to give to
Yamaha/Schaff/whoever when you order.

Failing that, I have used the French felt Schaff sells (Lamarough - sp???)
with very good results. It's great felt and is available in many different
sizes - you can usually find a size that will work on odd-ball pianos.

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "antares" <antares@euronet.nl>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: Square grand bichord damper felt supplier inquiry


> At this moment in time, Yamaha has the best damper felt in the world.
> There are basically three types :
> Upright dampers
> Grand Piano dampers (GP)
> Concert grand dampers (CF)
>
> For a smaller instrument GP would be your best choice.
> And why?
> Because their damper felt is soft, yet very strong, whereas for
> instance Steinway damper felt is also soft but always breaks down in
> the trichords.
>
> André Oorebeek
>
> On 18-nov-04, at 18:35, Kurt wrote:
>
> > Greetings again all.
> >
> > First, thanks to all who made suggestions about the Steinway D
> > repetition springs and voicing problems. All good input and
> > appreciated. Should relevant updates about all that come up I will
> > certainly share it.
> >
> > Now, today's question.
> >
> > Preparing to rebuild the damper system on the square grand I've been
> > rebuilding.
> >
> > There are two strings per note throughout the piano, except of course
> > for the low bass.
> >
> > The old original dampers were of the flat pad variety, and did not
> > dampen for sh*t. Truly pathetic performance.
> >
> > I have completely rebuilt the lifter rod system with all new parts and
> > have reconfigured it to be far more precise than the original design.
> >
> > Tests with bichord dampers indicate that that type will work far
> > better than flat pad dampers. (duh!!!)
> >
> > Having gotten a sense that the various people here know just about
> > everything, (in a collective sense that is, not a trace of sarcasm
> > here), I would appreciate advice on where to get the absolute best
> > quality grand damper felts, emphasis on bichords.
> >
> > I feel safe in assuming that there may indeed be better quality felts
> > than what is to be found in the Schaff catalog. You may read a trace
> > of dry sardonicism into that statement if you wish.
> >
> > (I have been mostly engaged in concert and residential
> > tuning/regulation for, gosh, decades and have fallen far out of the
> > total rebuilding aspect loop for the most part. Although I know damn
> > well what parts ARE and what they DO, I frequently am at a loss what
> > the rest of the world CALLS those parts. "I gotta replace those things
> > there ma'am. What are they called? I dunno, but they GOTTA be
> > replaced." The inchoate and inarticulate shame!)
> >
> > ;-)
> >
> > Since the soundboard/bridge/stringing phase went so stunningly well, I
> > have a very very powerful, loud piano with long sustain to tame, with
> > but wee bits of compressed sheep hair to accomplish that mission.
> >
> > So... who makes killer quality grand damper bichord damper felts?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
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> >
> friendly greetings
> from
> André Oorebeek
>
> Vita Dura Est
>
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