<font color='black' size='2' face='arial'> <div>Marshall  </div> <div> </div> <div>You can try to get the damper to work without a spoon bender. When a damper doesn't lift when the key is depressed, it means the spoon is too far away from the damper lever. So you want to bend the spoon towards the damper lever. You can do this by using the action rail to bend the spoon. Here is how you do that. </div> <div> </div> <div>1. Take out the key.</div> <div>2. Take the bridle strap off its wire. The wippen will drop down, but only a little bit.  What is holding up the wippen is the spoon hitting the action rail. </div> <div>3. Gently push down on the wippen. When you push down on the wippen, the spoon will bend, towards the damper lever. </div> <div>(If the wippen is attached to the sticker, you might need to unscrew the sticker to do this).  </div> <div>4. When you've done it a little bit, push up on the wippen, (making sure the jack is under the butt), and see if the damper lifts away from the string. <br> 5. Repeats #3 as necessary. </div> <div>6. When the damper lifts the way it's supposed to, re-attach the bridle strap, and put the key back in the piano.<br> </div> <div style="CLEAR: both"></div> <div>Warning. DO NOT do this procedure if the there are plastic action parts.</div> <div> </div> <div> Wim<br> </div> <div style="FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">-----Original Message-----<br> From: Marshall Gisondi <pianotune05@hotmail.com><br> To: pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org><br> Sent: Wed, Apr 20, 2011 10:27 am<br> Subject: [pianotech] tool question<br> <br> <div id=AOLMsgPart_1_8a5ed51a-4de7-422b-b5d4-1adb9210ba5f> <STYLE>#AOLMsgPart_1_8a5ed51a-4de7-422b-b5d4-1adb9210ba5f td{color: black;} #AOLMsgPart_1_8a5ed51a-4de7-422b-b5d4-1adb9210ba5f .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } #AOLMsgPart_1_8a5ed51a-4de7-422b-b5d4-1adb9210ba5f body.hmmessage { font-size: 10pt; font-family:Tahoma } </STYLE> <FONT size=3 face=Arial>Hi Everyone,</FONT><br> <FONT size=3 face=Arial>I went to service one of my customers who owns a Gulbransen spinet piano.  one of the dampers in the bass e flat first octave just won't dampen unless I lift the bass sustain, guessing it's a spoon because a. the damper acts fine witn the pedal is depressed, and b. when I lift the key, the damper doesn't lift.  I took my finger and flicked the damper and it appears to have spring tension.  So m y question is this are there more than two types of spoon benders or are there only two out there?  I have one that connects to the combination handle and another that has it's own handle all one piece flatter design.  Do you guys have a easier way to get at the spoon in a spinet?  Thanks</FONT><br> <FONT size=3 face=Arial>Marshall</FONT><br> <SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><FONT size=3><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond,Times,Serif"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Marshall Gisondi Piano Technician</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><br> <SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><FONT size=3><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond,Times,Serif"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Marshall's Piano Service</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><br> <STRONG><EM><FONT size=3 face=Garamond><A href="mailto:pianotune05@hotmail.com">pianotune05@hotmail.com</A></FONT></EM></STRONG><br> <SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><FONT size=3><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond,Times,Serif"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">215-510-9400</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><br> <STRONG><EM><FONT size=3 face=Garamond><A href="http://www.phillytuner.com/" target=_blank>www.phillytuner.com</A> </FONT></EM></STRONG><br> <SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><FONT size=3><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond,Times,Serif"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Graduate of The School of Piano Technology for the Blind <A href="http://www.pianotuningschool.org/" target=_blank>www.pianotuningschool.org</A> Vancouver, WA<br> <br> <br> <br> </SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><FONT size=3><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond,Times,Serif"></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN><br> <br> <br> </div> </div> </font>