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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Yep, that happened to me recently. The ringing
didn't stop even with firm pressing of the suspect damper. It took me a
few minutes to figure it out. When I did figure it out, I
wondered how I could have spent so long denying the reality that the damper
I was pressing against strings was not the one with a problem.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Gary Fluke</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Snohomish, WA</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=tvaktvak@sbcglobal.net href="mailto:tvaktvak@sbcglobal.net">Tom
Sivak</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech List</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, October 19, 2007 6:29
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: ringing overtones</DIV>
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<DIV>It's possible that another string is actually ringing. Does it stop
when you mute the string with your finger? If not, it might be a
different string ringing in sympathy with the offending string. </DIV>
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<DIV>Tom Sivak</DIV>
<DIV>Chicago</DIV>
<DIV><BR><B><I>Noah Haverkamp <<A
href="mailto:noahhaverkamp@yahoo.com">noahhaverkamp@yahoo.com</A>></I></B>
wrote:</DIV>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">There's
a copper-wound tenor bichord (at the break) on a Kawai CL-4WO 44" console
serial number 1821717 that rings high unpleasant overtones rather loudly,
loud enough so you can hear it over the phone, as soon as the damper damps
the strings. When I mute either string it still happens. I moved the damper
head up and down, left and right and every which way and checked damper
timing - nothing helped. It appeared to fit nice and neat into the gap of
the bichord. It was seated firmly against the bridge and bridge pins. The
strings are aligned at the v-bar. <BR><BR>Is it possible I just didn't get
the damper to seat just perfectly? After I left I thought of this
possibility: maybe the damper felt is too tough. Perhaps replacing it with
fresh? or a softer kind? The other notes just above rang just a little as
well, but only half as bad. <BR><BR>Or is it just the piano? Can nothing be
done?<BR><BR>-Noah Haverkamp
Frere<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>