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<div>Tom,</div>
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<div>I hope you've got official Fasioli damper felt...when someone pays $100,000+ for a piano they can be very fussy...if I was you I'd try some of the tips I posted...</div>
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<div>David Ilvedson, RPT<br/>Pacifica, CA 94044<br/></div>
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<hr/>Original message<br/>From: "Thomas Cole"
<tcole@cruzio.com> </tcole@cruzio.com><br/>To: "Pianotech List"
<pianotech@ptg.org> </pianotech@ptg.org><br/>Received: 7/16/2008 6:27:40 PM<br/>Subject: Re: Noisy Dampers on Shift<br/><br/>
<p align="left">I'll see if replacing the felt on one damper cures the problem.<br/>Tom<br/><br/>Will Truitt wrote:<br/></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31,73,125); font-family: ">Everybody’s suggestions are all worthwhile and should be considered. Just because it’s a Fazioli does not mean that it doesn’t have hard trichord felt. It certainly wouldn’t be the first new piano with hard felt – I replaced the trichord felts on a less than a year old Steinway B a few years ago under warranty because they were noisy. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31,73,125); font-family: ">And you say “slow release of the key”. I’m not trying to blame the player here, but I think if you release the key slowly enough, just about any piano will “ zzzzup”. I would have the player play the note and release in the manner which he normally plays and gets this noise. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31,73,125); font-family: ">It doesn’t hurt to state the obvious sometimes too.</span><a href="http://toolbar.aol.com/tmz/download.html?NCID=aolcmp00050000000014" target="_blank"> </a>! </p>
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