Has anyone else besides Cy heard the thing called the "liberty strip"? (presumably from the fact that it determines the damper's liberty to travel skyward. Very "1984" style irony) Also, is there a proper name for that "after-bounce" or "thumping" that happens when it it adjusted too high? -kurt <--- nomenclature geek On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:02 AM, John Delacour <JD at pianomaker.co.uk> wrote: > At 07:13 -0700 17/6/10, Joseph Garrett wrote: > > JD harrumphed: "Since when is "upstop rail" a correct term?!" >> >> JD, >> Since we took the German and translated it. <G> (to American English<G>) >> Try getting a copy of Mason's Piano Nomanclature so that you arent' quite so >> confused.<G> >> Joe >> > > The German is Dämpferpralleiste, so lord knows what confused person did the > translation. The thing is called the (damper) stop rail. In England, where > it was invented before the Germans even had modern-style dampers, it is also > called the damper check rail or, on an upright, the slap rail. Upstop is > pure nonsense, Mason or not. If Mason is as useless as Schimmel's > Nomenclatur it has no value anyway. > > JD > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100618/ee1af252/attachment.htm>
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