speaking of damper problems

Wimblees@aol.com Wimblees@aol.com
Thu Aug 15 13:07 MDT 2002


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I am, as we speak, working on a 30 year old B with some damper problems. 
There are about a dozen notes that just won't damping cleanly, and the rest 
that could use improving. I rebushed the guide rail and replaced all the 
damper felts over Christmas, and that is when the problems started. C2 in 
particular just doesn't want to shut off and F#1 has high overtones coming 
out when the key is released. I remedied the problem several months ago by 
gluing a small nut to the lever, with the intention of looking at this thing 
in detail over the summer. Well, it's summer time, and I am working on it. 

I took the damper tray out of the piano, and cleaned all the groves, and bent 
the springs slightly. It's got Teflon bushing, so there is no restrictions 
there. Everything works and looks perfect. Since there seems to be a general 
problem throughout the piano, I was thinking of adding a little weight to 
each lever. I realize that would increase touch weight, but if it was done 
uniformly, I though it might not be as noticeable. 

Before I put the tray back in, are there any ideas, thoughts, suggestions 
that might help solve this problem.

Wim 

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