Risking doing improper work here, I DO have a couple different dimensions of width available in my shop, and I cut my own, but I don't obsess about it. As long as there is enough clearance between adjacent dampers, I'm happy. And sometimes (like this HF Miller we did) the damper heads are very narrow, and I couldn't find felt that narrow. But, there was plenty of space for a slightly wider felt. Cosmetically, it looks nice to my eye with a little bit of white either side of the head. Functionally it works as well as anything. Maybe I should obsess more??? Nah............. William R. Monroe On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:08 PM, Terry Farrell <mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com>wrote: > Why not buy felt the proper width? > > Terry Farell > > On Mar 1, 2010, at 11:17 PM, William Monroe wrote: > > Because most often I find the damper felt is slightly wider than the damper > head. So, there may be a mm or some such on either side of the damper > head. Not always, but often IME. > > William R. Monroe > > > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Terry Farrell <mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com>wrote: > >> Why would there be felt overhanging the sides of the damper head? >> >> Terry Farrell >> >> On Mar 1, 2010, at 4:19 PM, William Monroe wrote: >> >> Steven, >> >> As some others have suggested, I do grand dampers in the piano. But I'd >> add a step. Before gluing on the felts, I use a block that simulates the >> thickness of the damper felt to rest under the damper heads on the strings, >> and roughly time all the dampers, sans felt. Then I regulate the damper >> wire bends, getting them nice and square with the strings. Then, install >> the felts with hot hide; the heads clamp and align the dampers. This way, >> when the felts are glued in, they end up with a nice even overhang on either >> side of the head, and are about 90% regulated. Some minor tweaking for >> bleeders follows, but it is very minimal. Neat method I learned from a guy >> who has done a bazillion (maybe a bazillion and one) sets of dampers. >> William R. Monroe >> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Steven Hopp <hoppsmusic at hotmail.com>wrote: >> >>> I'm wondering how many of you glue new damper felt on old heads and wires >>> with dampers in the piano and/or out? I have a set to do on a newly strung >>> piano and this is the first set I am attempting. I have Susan Grahms >>> articles from the PTG technical prep manual and her method and I have a >>> method and suggestion from a colleague who suggests something different. >>> >>> Thoughts? Suggestions? >>> >>> Steven Hopp >>> Midland, TX >>> >> >> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100302/11c9911c/attachment.htm>
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