<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1264" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello Jarred</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The problem of "ringing on" in the bass = section has been a problem in many upright under-damped pianos. I don't think it was = the lack of Mass in the damper which allowed the condition, rather it was = the lack of damping the important nodal points. To this end "Fly Dampers" were = used. I haven't seen any of these fly-dampers in new pianos, but the principle = was that a little damper (usually square, not round) was attached to the normal damper by a piece of thick wire - like grand damper wire - this = wire bypassed the hammer operational area and had the fly damper attached to = its end. I hope this is descriptive enough to give a mental picture. Some = manufacturers applied this principle extending it to a fly-damper unit... Was there no = end to it? The George Rogers piano was the main user of this = principle.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Michael G = (UK)</FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>