<html> Hire a technician.  This is not a self-help forum. Jon Page At 09:01 AM 08/23/2001 -0700, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite cite>My Ricca & Son has monochords from A1-F#10, bichords from G11-B27, and triple-string plain notes (trichords -- not sure if you use it universally or only for wound trichords) from C28-C88.  The break is at B27/C28 and all trichords are plain wire.  Currently all my trichord dampers are flat felt and all my bichord and monochord are wedges.  I was wondering -- up to approximately how far would you recommend putting trichord wedge dampers in?  I have no plans to rescale my piano (as in replace trichord plain notes with bichord wound notes).  I currently have a set of 50 flat felt dampers (way more than enough) so I can replace those, but I don't yet have the wedges.  What do you think the approximate cost of the wedges would be? --- Jon Page <jon.page@verizon.net> wrote: > At 10:13 PM 08/22/2001 -0400, you wrote: > >Since I'm replacing the damper felts on this piano, > I'm torn as to whether I > >should duplicate this setup or go with matching > damper felts. > > > >Any thoughts? > > > >Tom Sivak > > Match the felts, don't repeat someone else's lame > idea/mistake. > > Get them travelling straight and don't forget to > rebush the guide rails. > > Regards, > Jon Page,   piano technician > Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. > <a href="mailto:jon.page@verizon.net" eudora="autourl">mailto:jon.page@verizon.net</a> > <a href="http://www.stanwoodpiano.com/" eudora="autourl">http://www.stanwoodpiano.com</a> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger <a href="http://phonecard.yahoo.com/" eudora="autourl">http://phonecard.yahoo.com/</a> </blockquote></html>