At 10:34 PM 3/26/99 +0100, you wrote: >Holy List, please help me ! >I'm running into trouble with the bass dampers of a Bosendorfer 170. As the >felt had become noisy, I substituted them all. Everithing was fine but the >bass bichords. The decay time is too long. Everything regulated, the damper >heads work 90 degrees to the strings, open regularly, etc., but if you play >"staccato", the fundamental and the 2° harmonic take too long to decay. I >tried many things, i.e. different lenght of the felt, different position, >squeezed the felt to make it enter a little more into the bichords, but >nothing made it fine. Besides that, my customer says that it's not working >as well as before... >But before it was too noisy, and it has never had a good damping on the >bass, so now I must do something resolutive ! >In the LIST we trust... > >Thank you ! >Luigi Lamacchia >www.inmedia.it/lamacchia > Are the underlevers sluggish? Perhaps they require repinning or at least sizing & lubrication. Do the underlevers have assist sprimgs? This would make a big improvement. Regards, Jon Page Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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