<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2722" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: = Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=rol= e_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV>Carman,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Not quite plucking, but grating and chafing, for sure.  Then buzzi= ng when they re-seat.  I've used teflon powder before.  I've also fil= ed crust off of damper felts with a nail file.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Dave Stahl</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 9/16/2005 8:48:15 PM Pacific Standard Time, cgpiano@humboldt1.com writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><= FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>   My client with a 1979 Baldwin spinet complained of e= xcess noise when she <BR>depressed the damper pedal.  My examination showed= that the unichord bass <BR>damper felts had somehow gotten sticky and woul= d "pluck" those bass strings <BR>when lifted.  Anybody ever seen that?<BR><BR>My quick remedy was to dust talc powder onto the face of the sticky damper <BR>felts.  Problem solved.<BR><BR>Carman Gentile RPT<BR>Redwood Chapter<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>