<!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 6.00.2900.2963" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#008080 size=2>List, the tenor area of grand trichords are fitted with various configurations of damper felt. I have seen:</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#008080 size=2>-a dozen or so trichord felt front and back, then just flats front and back</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#008080 size=2>-half a dozen trichord front and back, then a dozen or so mixed (trichords in front and flats in back), then flats front and back</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#008080 size=2></FONT></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#008080 size=2>and I have seen, along with the above variations:</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#008080 size=2>-front and back damper felts of equal length</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#008080 size=2>-front felts about 7/8" and back felts about 1/2"</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#008080 size=2></FONT></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#008080 size=2>[I am using "front" to mean closest to keyboard, "back" to mean closest to tail .. is that also "proximal" and "distal" respectively?]</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#008080 size=2></FONT></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#008080 size=2>Question: When replacing grand dampers, should I just copy what was done before, or is there a "best practice" here that trumps whatever may have been done before? </FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#008080 size=2></FONT></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#008080 size=2>Thx</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#008080 size=2>Jason Kanter</FONT></STRONG></DIV></BODY></HTML>