<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: = Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=rol= e_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV>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 fig= ure. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>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 patte= rn 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?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Wim <DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"= >Willem Blees, RPT<BR>Piano Tuner/Technician<BR>School of Music<BR>University of Alabama<BR>Tuscaloosa, AL</FONT></DIV></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>