At 13:46 -0800 08/01/2011, Stan Ragnes wrote: >Yesterday, I was asked to tune and repair an older piano...It was >made in London and retailed in A R Findlay's music store located on >110 West Nile Street, Glasco, Scotland. It was lovingly brought >over to the US by my client's parents who had had it restrung, >repinned and replaced a few dampers. > >[...] >To perform a tuning, the dampers must be removed. They rest on top >of the action and are engaged when the key goes up and pushes a >damper rod located above the action. To tune an overdamper piano you just get yourself a Papps wedge. Most tuners in England use a Papps wedge for the underdamped pianos too. Nobody removes the dampers! JD
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