<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" = xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" = xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" = xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" = xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" = name="State"/> <o:SmartTagType = namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"/>  <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink="#606420"> <div class=Section1> Hello back, Jurgen. Comments = belowJ<o:p></o:p></span= > <o:p> </o:p> <div> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center tabindex=-1> </div> </div> Hello Jurgen and List – just to let you all know the latest in the damper configuration exercise for my S&S = ‘A’.<o:p></o:p> Jurgen said: >So it = was difficult to persuade Steinway to sell you a set of damper felts??<o:p></o:p> No.<o:p></o:p></s= pan> <?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param = 0000,0000,8080><?x-tad-smaller><?/x-tad-smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily><?= fontfamily><?param Lucida Grande><?color><?param = 0000,0000,8080><?x-tad-smaller>Re: those Steinway = damper felts I phoned them on Monday last and was told they come direct from = <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Hamburg</st1:State></st1:place>. They = arrived on Friday (day before yesterday) in that big box like a super-oversize = match box. <o:p></o:p> <?/x-tad-smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily> >Well, at = least the service was quick.<o:p></o:p> Yes.<o:p></o:p></= span> <?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param = 0000,0000,8080><?x-tad-smaller>They came unannounced and with no bill attached. That’ll probably = arrive in the post tomorrow.<o:p></o:p> <?/x-tad-smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily> <o:p> </o:p> It = didn’t.<o:p></o:p> >I hope = they won't cost you an arm and a leg. <o:p></o:p> I = will!<o:p></o:p> <?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param = 0000,0000,8080><?x-tad-smaller>As for the change from Split/Split to Split/Pad there is no indication by = the way the box is packed or the number of dampers therein. The Bass Clips are = in accord and the Bass Wedge likewise – but when it comes to the = Splits and Pads, by the looks of the contents of that box they’re all either = Split/Split or Pad/Pad and I <?x-tad-smaller><?/x-tad-smaller>know<?/x-tad-smaller>= <?x-tad-smaller> that wasn’t so when I stripped them down and made the pencil marks = on the sides of the heads – which have subsequently become = erased….. I’ll do a little counting tomorrow and tally up the Splits and = Pads with the number of damper heads available – to see what gives here. = Anyway my understanding of the layout is backed by Max Matthias in his book = Steinway Service Manual, Diagram 7.1 which shows this juxtapositioning of those Split/Pad – however that book is a general compendium of all = S&S models and not particular in the damper arrangement. With string = dimensions it <?x-tad-smaller><?/x-tad-smaller>is = <?/x-tad-smaller><?x-tad-smaller>particular to each model and his Tables show all grands = separately.<o:p></o:p> <?/x-tad-smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily> >I agree, = I can't find the answer to your query there, either. I hope someone with an A = will pipe up and tell you what the configuration is on = theirs.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I, however, used my noddle and = looked at an ‘A’ we have in the Old Greenroom at Glyndebourne. There I = found all the answers:<o:p></o:p> Like mine it is a 20Bass+5Bicord at = the start of the tenor break. So notes 1 – 25 are taken care = of.<o:p></o:p> The next 8 notes are Split/Split = – that is notes 26 – 33<o:p></o:p> The next 4 notes are Pad/Split = – that is notes 34 – 37 (the Pad is always on the Keyboard end of = the damper head)<o:p></o:p> Thereafter it is Pad/Pad all the = way until you run out of damper heads.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> The set Steinway sent = are:<o:p></o:p> Clip/Clip 1 – = 8<o:p></o:p> Wedge/Wedge 9 –> = 19<o:p></o:p> Long Wedge = 20<o:p></o:p> Wedge/Wedge 21 –> = 25<o:p></o:p> Split/Split 26 – = 41<o:p></o:p> That’s the first double row = which ends with a thick rectangular piece of what looks like Wurzen touch = felt….There must be a purpose for this piece other than = packing?<o:p></o:p> Then follows the Pads which, for = packing purposes, have been placed Long –> Short paired up with Short = –> Long. So you select one from each end to pair up. That’s OK but = I’ve merely to get my brain-cell round the Pad/Split pairing without robbing = the Pad/Pad unduly. Straight forward I suppose when I get round to thinking of it<o:p></o:p> <?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param = 0000,0000,8080><?x-tad-smaller>Thanks for your interest Jurgen <?/x-tad-smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily><?fontfamily><?param = Arial><?color><?param 0000,0000,8080><?x-tad-smaller>Michael <?/x-tad-smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily><?fontfamily><?param = Arial><?color><?param = 0000,0000,8080><?x-tad-smaller> <o:p></o:p> <?/x-tad-smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily> <o:p> </o:p> </div> </body> </html>