Mysterious after ring

John Ross piano.tech@ns.sympatico.ca
Mon, 15 Feb 1999 12:42:10 -0400


Hi,
Have you determined where the ring is coming from?
Could the stringing braid have been removed?
Is it a sympathetic ring from a section of the bass strings, above the dampers?
Just a couple of thoughts.
Regards,
John M. Ross
Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada

A440A@AOL.COM wrote:

> Patrick writes;
> > The only other possibilities I like are;
> >hard felts and technician interference,  if a previous tech had changed
> >any of
> >the action mounting bolts locations. Also, note that the dampers do not
> >make
> >that "hard felt" contact sound.
>
> Greetings,
>     This after ring is occurring where? Have you plucked all the strings,
> individually, with the dampers damping? If soft damper felt, properly aligned
> and with sufficient spring doesn't damp the after-ring, then perhaps it is
> something else?  Is it possible that there is just one string of a tri-chord
> singing? (string alignment is in order for that!).  Just how strong are those
> springs?
> Regards,
> Ed Foote



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