<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Try a piece of fishing line or string in the spllt, it will spread it minimally.<div>Possibly deepen the split as well with a razor blade.</div><div>John Ross</div><div>Windsor, Nova Scotia<br><div><div>On 2011-07-19, at 11:44 AM, Duane McGuire wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I'm working on a 4' 8" Pearl River.<br><br>F#3 and G#3 seem to dampen the fundamental and lower partials  well.<br>For each of these notes the 5th partial rings with many seconds of<br>sustain after the damper falls.   Interestingly, it is the right<br>string in each of these that is sounding the 5th partial so clearly.<br>These are split dampers.<br><br>I don't know if this is a "damper problem", or if I'm looking at<br>something else.  Other notes in the section dampen well.<br><br>Any suggestions would be appreciated!<br><br>-- <br>Duane McGuire<br>801-830-5858<br><a href="http://www.mcguirepiano.com">http://www.mcguirepiano.com</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>