<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: Broadwood And Sons questions</title></head><body> <div>At 22:42 -0800 9/1/08, Jurgen Goering wrote:</div> <div><br></div> <blockquote type="cite" cite>...Damping usually can be improved a bit by adjusting the lift wires.  Just as with any upright, the dampers should not be lifting before the hammer is half way to the string.</blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>Sure, but if the dampers have settled into the string with the result that the lift wire dollies are sitting on the levers, the way to get them right is to re-crank the damper-head wires and NOT to screw up the long wires, which would be equivalent to bending out all the spoons on an under-damper instead of bending the wires.  As the damper felt gets flattened with time and use, the damper not only adopts the wrong angle to the strings but also adopts a significantly higher position on the strings.  By bending the vertical leg of the L-wire forward and the horizontal leg down, you remedy both these defects and the long lift wire rises to the right position above the lever; in fact the achievement of this result is the test that you have got the bending, at leat of the vertical leg of the L, right.</div> <div><br></div> <div>To do things the way you suggest solves neither of the two main problems and will create more problems into the bargain, and that's supposing that you don't have to resort to a blow-torch to move the long wires and break a dozen of them!</div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div align="center"><img src="cid:p06240839c3ab8aca32fd@[10.0.0.2].1.0"></div> </body> </html>