At 19:51 -0400 21/04/2011, Ed Foote wrote: >I have made them work by pulling the smaller side down with a long >needle inserted lengthwise about 2/3rds of the way up the leg then >trimming the bottom to make both legs even. But I shouldn't have to. You wouldn't have to with either the Hamburg Steinway felt or the Yamaha felt. At 17:23 -0700 21/04/2011, David Love wrote: >Listening to Jack Brand and others there seems to be no question but >that making and cutting damper felt is no easy task. I once >watched a damper presentation by one of the old timers from the >Mason Hamlin factory (can't remember his name now). They cut >everything themselves from sheets with a hand sharpened knife, even >those bichord dampers with the dual overhead slots. Beautiful work >but time consuming no doubt. It is possible to do horizontal shaped felt like that -- I've done it using Steinway hammer rest felt sheets -- but the vertical strips would be impossible, I'd say. Besides, I simply don't believe that the Japanese do it by hand. I don't know how they do it but I guess it's done on a computer-controlled table using a circular knife running at very high speed. JD
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