damper lever ht.

[Mary Smith]

Conrad,
Oh yeah, sounds right. Watch his technique with the pedal. Perhaps you need 
to raise the underlevers a bit to allow a little more play between back of 
key and underlever. If the damper felts have settled way down into the 
strings, the underlever height may have changed. Check to make sure that 
the dampers are not lifting from the strings until the hammer is halfway to 
the string, or the key is halfway depressed. And then check height of the 
tray and make sure that there is sufficient lost motion between pedal and 
tray. I guess you could even just check tray height and not mess with 
underlever height, come to think of it...
Mary


>Gee, guys and gals, thanks...
>
>You make me feel like a pianochondriac.   Oh, yeah... I've got that 
>problem, too - only worse, right?
>
>This morning I was doing a damper timing job on a teflon B.  Pianist was 
>complaining about stuff and i noticed that they were mostly way late - 
>made for funny sounds with deep throated wedges not quite clearing the strings.
>
>OK, OK, i  know the thing to do there is put on new felt, or at least trim 
>them, but that's not what i'm noticing.  One of the things the fella 
>mentioned was some ringing.
>
>If the dampers are too late,  then they are obviously not sitting on the 
>key ends and there is lost motion in the pedal so that they are not 
>resting on the tray.
>
>Why does he think that they are not damping properly?
>
>I cogitated whilst getting the beasties to stop doing the twist after I 
>lowered them.  (almost set off the smoke detectors)
>
>Methinks that he has been resting his foot on the damper pedal just enough 
>for that short armed lever to lift the back damper felt up - half 
>pedalling without trying!  Does this sound right or has the CA finally 
>gotten to me?
>
>
>
>Conrad Hoffsommer - Music Technician
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