<HTML><HTML>List I don't think anyone can help me with this, but here goes... I replaced the damper felts on an Acrosonic spinet.  My initial diagno= sis and decision to replace the damper felts was based on the familiar sound= of ringing after notes were played.  I did notice that the spoons wer= e lifting most of the dampers very early, preventing some of the dampers fro= m having good contact pressure with the string, but I found a few that were = OK and when I checked them, they didn't dampen very well, either, so I decid= ed that the felt (which was original to this 1940s piano) needed replacing.&= nbsp; It was my hope that the additional height from the new felt would rem= edy the spoon lift timing, but if not I was ready to regulate those suckers,= too. When I put the action back in the piano I found that the dampening is not mu= ch better.  But why?      1. There is follow through on all the dampers.&nbsp= ; (In case I'm not clear, I mean that the damper will           move with the string when = the string is pressed toward the soundboard, indicating that there &nbs= p;             is proper pressure for the= damper to dampen the string.)      2. The spoons are indeed lifting at the proper time= , and so they are not impeding the damper levers from pressing   &= nbsp;            against the st= rings.   (There is follow through.)      3. The damper pedal is not holding the dampers away= from the strings.  (Again, there is follow           through.)      4. The dampers are seated well on the strings.&nbsp= ; It's not a string level issue.  (It's not one of the           three strings on a trichor= d, for instance.  It's all of them equally.)      5. The dampers are aligned to the strings properly.=   The bichords dampen both strings equally, the trichords dampen all &= nbsp;         three equally.  Just = not enough, it seems. They do all dampen somewhat.  I mean, it's not like the pedal is down.=   But there is definitely sound after the keys are returned to the up = position.  It sounds just about the same as it did before I replaced t= hem!  (A second question might be, who among you would charge this wom= an for your work?  I won't, until I can get it to sound better.) I did file the hammers, which were heavily groovy, man.  I didn't chan= ge the hammer blow distance though, due to the spoons initially being on the= early side, I thought it was best to just leave it as is.  I was happ= y that the spoon lift was OK with the new damper felts.  I hate regula= ting spoons.  I didn't do anything else to the piano, other than repla= ce a few bridle straps.      I'm going back on Saturday to check it out, and see if perhaps the felt has = started to conform to the contour of the strings and dampen better, but if t= hey don't, then what?  I'll try dampening all the treble strings that = have no dampers with a towel and see if the ringing goes away, but I don't t= hink it will. Any ideas?  Is there something I've not thought of?  Any diagnos= tic procedures that might shed light on this? Thanks in advance, Tom Sivak Chicago PTG Associate </HTML>