Broadwood And Sons questions

[Phil Bondi]

John Delacour, thanks for your suggestions and 
advice on this.

..and thanks to everyone else who chimed in with 
suggestions and advice. I think I have enough to 
go on to make her happy.

-Phil Bondi(Fl)

> Just take out the two screws holding the bar and lift out the whole 
> damper action -- but have a look how the the lift rail is fixed first.
> 
> It is certainly easier to tune without the dampers if you can focus your 
> hearing but most full-time tuners I know use a Papps wedge, as I do 
> myself, and provided the light is good, it is hardly any worse than an 
> under-damper action to find the way through.  The older pianos have the 
> note names written in ink on the wrestplank.  I must admit I tuned my 
> latest Kirkman without the dampers in, but then I don't class myself as 
> a tuner.
> 
> JD
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