after-ring

[Don]

Hi all,

If necessary add an *over dampher*...like the ones on a Yamaha U3H

At 09:46 AM 11/8/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Les..
>I've had the same experience with a Kimball.  There is no cure for that
>thing!               The dampers hit the wrong place on the strings...a
>node...so the only possible cure is to move the dampers up, but that will
>be in the way of the hammer, so it is a lousy piano design.
>Dick RPT
>
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>> From: Leslie W Bartlett <lesbart@juno.com>
>> To: pianotech@ptg.org
>> Subject: after-ring
>> Date: Friday, November 07, 1997 1:00 PM
>> 
>> List:
>> 
>> I sort of tuned a Kimball console this morning that had a slight
>> "after-ring" when playing A-440.  All dampers "seemed" to be mating the
>> strings correctly. When I pushed the A-440 damper tightly against the
>> three strings, it did NOT diminish the after ring. I went up-n-down the
>> strings, placing hand on them, hoping to find the offending note, but
>> didn't.
>> 
>> What next?  
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Leslie 
>> lesbart@juno.com
>> "I've given up my search for truth. I'm now looking for a fairy
>> godmother."
>
>
Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.
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