*HA!!* I put this very problem into a Journal article as a puzzler, and answered it the next month. I removed the offending dampers (there are only a few) and shortened the bottom of the levers, still allowing enough room to touch the spoons. Susan <laughing> David Love wrote: > Was tuning this story and clark upright the other day and it had an odd > problem. When the sustain pedal was depressed and just after the dampers > cleared the strings, the bottom of the damper levers near the bass tenor > break contacted the bass strings. Made a rather awful sound as you can > imagine. Restricting the movement of the pedal would not have been a good > fix as it would not have allowed the dampers to clear the strings > adequately. Never seen something like that. I sent them back to the dealer > to get it resolved as it wasn't something I wanted to invest any significant > amount of time in but I'd be curious as to theories. > > David Love > www.davidlovepianos.com > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20120924/67ff6ab3/attachment.htm>
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