Ur one brave dude Farrell ! Rick Ucci Uccipiano.com 609-677-0444 On Feb 15, 2013, at 4:12 PM, Terry Farrell <mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com> wrote: > Thanks for all the input on my little project. Here is a short report on what I did - and I got lucky! > > First I laid out all the damper levers with the damper felt facing up. Then I arranged them order as well as I could based on wire bends, felt angles and in the bass, the size of the string imprint. Then I did a little bit of wire bending in the shop based on lining up the string grooves in the hammers with the grooves in the damper felt. After doing that the best I could, I took the action to the client's home and installed the action. > > I figured it was worth a try before I soaked all the original dampers off and installed a new set of damper felt. > > All but about five dampers worked well. A little wire bending on those five or so and I was outta there with a smile on my face! > > Part of my luck for sure was that the original damper felt was still fairly soft and seemed to still be able to conform a bit to the strings. Everything dampened at least as well as most any other 50+ year old piano, so I considered it Mission Accomplished! > > Terry Farrell
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