damper lever ht.

[Ed Sutton]

Conrad-

Suppose you reversed the damper felts so the trichords were on the back.  As Roger
said, this would give more sensitive half pedal.  Lowering the tray as you
describe would make those half pedals happen in the "light" part of the pedal
stroke, leaving the front (flat) dampers in contact with the strings.  Sort of
like the old Broadwoods with flat dampers.
Does this make sense to anyone?

Ed Sutton

>
> I actually just _lowered_ the levers because they were late - just picking
> up at 1/2" or less from the string.
>
> >  And then check height of the tray and make sure that there is sufficient
> > lost motion between pedal and tray.
>
> Did that and there is just barely any air between the tray and the dags -
> the tray had been sitting on the pedal and that was the first (easiest)
> thing I changed.
>
> The main problem is, IMMHO, that the arc of the underlever end/damper block
> is so far off from being tangent to the damper wire that the dampers start
> lifting from the back with little added weight noticable to the foot.  Add
> to that, the fact that just moving the tray moves the underlever flange in
> an arc which moves the damper wire before you get in contact with the
> bottom of the levers.   You don't really feel the dampers lift until the
> front starts up.  I did a quick and dirty job so there still _is_ some
> unevenness to the lift, so undoubtedly there is some problem from that,
> [and I will get back into the studio next week to do fine regs] but you
> still don't feel the lift until the bulk of the _front_ lifts.
>
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