<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: Dummy Damper/Ron</title></head><body> <div>At 12:12 PM -0600 11/29/03, Ron Nossaman wrote:</div> <blockquote type="cite" cite>... The intended purpose of the auxiliary damper lever is to keep the lifter bar off of the damper levers to give the dampers at least some chance of working. The squeak is just a bonus.</blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>While you have made some excellent points, Ron, I still am unable to accept this conclusion. If this were the case, most all manufacturers of vertical pianos would include this auxiliary damper lever in their piano without fail for the premises you have given. Such is not the case, however.</div> <div><br></div> <div>I'm standing by the 'two rod acting as one theory' as the primary purpose of having that lever.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Any vertical piano that needs that lever to keep a single rod away from the dampers for whatever reason had problems from the getgo.<u> A properly designed and adjusted damper system</u> with one continuous rod doesn't need it.</div> <div><br></div> <div>I'm looking at a Young Chang console system right now, and there is *no way* that rod, *by itself*, is going to cause leakage in the damper system unless someone removes more than all the lost motion from the sustain pedal.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Now it is self evident that the weight of the rod could effect a damper system that is misadjusted. Surely, that is not the issue with me. I am speaking only to what I have decided is the primary purpose of the auxiliary damper lever from a manufacturing viewpoint.</div> <div><br></div> <div>As for the squeak, ah well.</div> <div><br></div> <blockquote type="cite" cite>Anyone remember the old Pianocorder damper solenoid system?</blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>Not familiar with it. Sounds like a 'borrowing from Peter to pay Paul' thing though for a particular situation.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Best,</div> <div><br></div> <div>Keith McGavern<br> Registered Piano Technician<br> Oklahoma Chapter 731<br> Piano Technicians Guild</div> <div>USA</div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> </body> </html>