bass dampers

[jolly roger]

Hi Terry,
             I usually use tri-wedges through out the tenor section,  but
there are some half peddling gains, to be had, using one flat and one tri
wedge, down to about mid F.  Teble section I use flat sewn damper felt.  
I think I covered the subject fairly well in my Damper articals.
Criteria.  mmmmmmmm Let me think.   Just experience, the customer and the
piano.  I know not a very good answer.
But always two wedges up to and past mid C.
Roger



At 12:33 PM 8/23/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi Roger. What criteria do you use in deciding how far up into the tenor to
>go with tri-wedges? I've seen them almost up to the treble, I've seen none
>in the tenor, I've seen where the front piece will be tri-wedge and the back
>piece will be flat. How to decide??? Thanks for any thoughts.
>
>Terry Farrell
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "jolly roger" <baldyam@sk.sympatico.ca>
>To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 11:27 PM
>Subject: Re: bass dampers
>
>
>> Hi Tom,
>>              Sounds like an unusual configuration,  I would go ahead and
>> use the traditional materials.  I would also consider using tri wedges up
>> through the centre section.
>> Regards Roger.
>>
>>
>>
>> At 10:13 PM 8/22/01 -0400, you wrote:
>> >Is it unusual for a grand piano to have two different kind of damper
>felts
>> on
>> >the same string in the bass monochord register?  On this piano, each
>string
>> >has one "traditional" monochord damper felt, with a big V shaped groove
>in
>> it
>> >to fit over the string, and on the other side of the damper, a treble
>> >tri-chord damper felt; the kind that's just flat.  (This actually
>continues
>> >up into the bichord register.  Same deal: one bichord felt matched with a
>> >treble damper.)
>> >
>> >Since I'm replacing the damper felts on this piano, I'm torn as to
>whether I
>> >should duplicate this setup or go with matching damper felts.
>> >
>> >Any thoughts?
>> >
>> >Tom Sivak
>> >
>>
>