[CAUT] damper question

[Porritt, David]

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Well it's certainly my opinion that dampers stop too soon on the B.  We
have a new one in a piano professor's studio and for some reason E6
really rings when you play C5.  The only thing I could do was to stretch
the tuning of E6 a little so it didn't ring quite as badly.  It was the
5th partial of C5 making the 2nd partial of E6 ring so stretching a
little helped just enough to stop the complaints.

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dp

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David M. Porritt

dporritt@smu.edu

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Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 12:19 PM
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Subject: [CAUT] damper question

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One of our piano profs complained that F6 on her B was not damping. She
has been playing this piano, and other B's, not to mention D's and other
pianos, for I don't know how long, (she's about 75 years old). But now,
all of a sudden, she complains that the note is not damping. Go figure.=20

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But this kind of got me interested in something. I looked at other
pianos, from small spinets to concert grands, and noticed that dampers
end anywhere from D6 - G6. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason
or pattern where they end. So my question is, is there a "rule of
thumb," or something much more sophisticated, to tell an scaler or piano
engineer where to stop the dampers?

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Wim=20

Willem Blees, RPT
Piano Tuner/Technician
School of Music
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL


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