Marshall, Yes, there are numerous styles of upright damper spoon benders, although spinets can be a challenge for all the bending tools available. Roger Gable P.S. Your description of the problem is quite challenging to understand, but I believe the problem may not the damper spoon but the damper felt of the adjacent dampers binding against the noted damper. ----- Original Message ----- From: Marshall Gisondi To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 1:27 PM Subject: [pianotech] tool question Hi Everyone, I went to service one of my customers who owns a Gulbransen spinet piano. one of the dampers in the bass e flat first octave just won't dampen unless I lift the bass sustain, guessing it's a spoon because a. the damper acts fine witn the pedal is depressed, and b. when I lift the key, the damper doesn't lift. I took my finger and flicked the damper and it appears to have spring tension. So m y question is this are there more than two types of spoon benders or are there only two out there? I have one that connects to the combination handle and another that has it's own handle all one piece flatter design. Do you guys have a easier way to get at the spoon in a spinet? Thanks Marshall Marshall Gisondi Piano Technician Marshall's Piano Service pianotune05 at hotmail.com 215-510-9400 www.phillytuner.com Graduate of The School of Piano Technology for the Blind www.pianotuningschool.org Vancouver, WA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20110420/e1487bcb/attachment.htm>
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