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[Susan Kline]

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At 08:58 PM 9/3/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>This arrangement give good damping except on some S&S A 2s  which I think 
>tmight have the dampers  sitting on nodal point. I've had some real 
>trouble with damping in some of these. Perhaps this is why they were 
>discontinued in favor of the A -3.
>      Dale

Hi, Dale. I once broke a long (unwound) tenor string in an S&S A (not sure 
if A2 or A3 ...) and I had the very devil of a time getting the damper to 
work after I replaced it. Well, it sort of worked, but had a nasty overtone 
whine, even after I replaced the felt. I finally got fed up with it, and 
put a small square of flat felt in between the two main pieces, near where 
the wire went by. It worked great! And it couldn't be seen once installed. 
Then, I noticed that all the tenor dampers had at least some of the same 
problem, and probably would have worked better with a third small piece of 
felt. I did one more which was particularly obnoxious.

Susan 
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