Tom, Try loosening one end from its mount and see if it stops springing and then is hard to remount in the old position... Andrew Anderson At 07:46 AM 8/6/2006, you wrote: >No, on second thought there are no damper springs. I would have >noticed them when putting the damper wires in. That ain't it. > >I've got limited time to get this fixed. Let me try again. > >Mason AA, total rebuild, now in the process of regulating. Damper >tray won't stay down, in contact with pitman, but hangs in the air, >actually holding the dampers up off the strings. I can push the >tray down till it contacts the pitman and there seems to be very >little resistance when doing so, but it pops back up again, almost >like being on a spring. > >Maybe is there a spring missing that I don't know about? Should >there be a spring that holds the tray in the downward position that >perhaps has come off sometime during the restringing, etc.? > >My knowledge of damper actions is limited, so forgive my maive >question. Not sure how to solve this problem, and it's a big >one. Piano is unplayable with many strings ringing on. (All the >dampers dampen perfectly if I simply hold the tray down and allow >them to rest on the strings like they should.) > >Help, please! > >Tom Sivak > >A440A at aol.com wrote: > ><< Wha'ts up with this? I can't imagine that there actually IS a spring in >there, holding the tray up. If anything, I would expect there to be a spring >holding the tray DOWN, allowing it to be lifted by the pedal, and then return >downward with the aid of a spring. >> > >Greetings, >this is a common problem where there are damper springs in place. If >an axis is shared by the underlever pinning and the tray pivots, any >underlever >springs will try to rotate the tray upwards. >Are there damper lever springs on this assembly? > > > >Ed Foote RPT >http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html >www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20060806/17b8a4e8/attachment.html
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