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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>One thing that has not been mentioned here is that
if the room is very much alive you can hear after ring from outside the
piano.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Norm Barrett</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=rsanbornmorgan@yahoo.com
href="mailto:rsanbornmorgan@yahoo.com">Richard Morgan</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:27
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Damper felt replacement</DIV>
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<DIV>Last month, I asked advice on replacing damper felts on an upright.
I did the job this week, and want to report my success and ask additional
advice.</DIV>
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<DIV>As per the list's consensus, I used hot hide glue (a mini-slow-cooker was
perfect!), practicing my technique on my own piano first! Things went
well, and I'm please with the glue results--both on my piano and the
customer's. </DIV>
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<DIV>I learned an interesting lesson--my piano has 11 single wound strings and
21 bichords, more than the 10 and 20 in the box from Schaff. As soon as
I realized that I wouldn't have enough, I saved a couple of each damper before
installing on my piano, in case the customer's was the same way. It,
however, had 10 singles and 18 bichords, so I was safe (still short one single
for my piano, though!). </DIV>
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<DIV>On the customer's piano, I was mostly happy with the results of the
job. Each damper, after regulating, effectively stops the string
from vibrating, and lifts well away from the string to allow it to sound
properly. However, after damping, there is still a lot of 'ring' in the
piano--at least, more than I want--and that is something I was hoping the
damper replacement would cure. Did I not do a good enough job of
regulating the dampers (I thought I did--each string/damper worked as I
wanted), or is there something else going on? </DIV>
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<DIV>I solicit your thoughts on this matter.</DIV><SPAN class=sg>
<DIV>Richard Morgan</DIV></SPAN></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR>
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