Damper problem

[Lance Lafargue]

The technique for doing the whole set on the bench is discussed toward the
back in the Reblitz book.  It's the way I do it still because I never
mastered the blind technique.  I only found myself making up new curse
words.

On this particular piano, I would first bend the damper wire way back to
see if a previous tech just tried to correct a bleeding damper problem.  If
no response, it has to be the spoon. You could glue it to the adjacent one
and at least it would lift when the note next door is played.  That's a
little joke....
Lance Lafargue, RPT
New Orleans Chapter
Covington, LA.
lafargue@iamerica.net

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> From: DGPEAKE@aol.com
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: Damper problem
> Date: Thursday, September 11, 1997 1:16 PM
> 
> Adjust the damper spoon.  I know it is a "blind technique" but with
practice
> you can do it.  Sometimes if I cannot reach the spoon blindly, I will
remove
> the bracket bolts and tip the action in order to see the spoon.  Then I
> adjust the spoon with a wire bender.  At least it gets me into the
ballpark.
> 
> This also makes and interesting discussion.  There are techniques to set
> samples and adjust the spoons on the bench.  Let the discussion begin!
> 
> Dave Peake, RPT
> Portland, OR