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<P align=left><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT size=2></FONT></FONT>Wim,</P>
<P align=left>I take it your piano isn't missing the muting felt strip in the tenor section between the bridge and the hitch pins?</P>
<P align=left>David I.</P>
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<P align=left><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT size=2>----- Original message ----------------------------------------><BR>From: <<A href="mailto:Wimblees@aol.com">Wimblees@aol.com</A>><BR>To: <<A href="mailto:caut@ptg.org">caut@ptg.org</A>><BR>Received: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 15:02:41 EDT<BR>Subject: speaking of damper problems</FONT></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT size=2><BR>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 rep<BR><BR>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 th<BR><BR>Before I put the tray back in, are there any ideas, thoughts, suggestions that might help solve this problem. <BR><BR>Wim </FONT></FONT></P></BODY></HTML>