I'm on board with this too! Those long dampers can be deceiving - they can look like they are aligned at the top, but may be off on the bottom. It's pretty hard to see, so it's easy to miss! Its amazing to me how one string not being damped well can cause so much noise! On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 4:30 PM, John Formsma <formsma at gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 3:56 AM, Gregor _ <karlkaputt at hotmail.com> wrote: > > Maybe only one damper is the culprit. Try to find it by dampening succesive >> all the bass strings by hand. >> > > > This is what I'm thinking as well. 1 or 2 of the lowest bass dampers isn't > damping well, allowing sympathetic vibrations to occur. Perhaps one of the > damper levers was bumped out of place during removal and/or work. > > Of course, it's hard to say without actually being there to look at it. > Tried fluffing and/or replacing an offending damper felt? I'd be checking > other things first since there is an apparent pattern with the F#'s and > A#'s. > > -- > JF > -- Ryan Sowers, RPT Puget Sound Chapter Olympia, WA www.pianova.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101113/7e791140/attachment.htm>
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