[pianotech] Damping issue

[John Delacour]

At 08:44 -0600 19/07/2011, Duane McGuire wrote:


>...Interestingly, it is the right string in each of these that is 
>sounding the 5th partial so clearly. These are split dampers.
>
>I don't know if this is a "damper problem", or if I'm looking at
>something else.  Other notes in the section dampen well.

It's a damper problem.  You just need to snip or squeeze or bend or 
whatever else until you solve it.  It you replaced the split felt 
with 'flat', you would find that all three strings damped equally.

Nobody likes dampers and split felts are the most difficult to deal with.

JD