Dampener Bar Alterations

To my luck, the changes that needed to be made to the dampener bar were very easy. I knew that the bar was sitting too high against the keys. All I had to do was unscrew the square tubes from the A-frame strut that were jointed to the dampener bar. Then I just screwed them back in a little lower than they were before. This instantly fixed the problem.

I also added 2 more layers of felt to the dampener bar to add more dampening. Zip ties did the trick pretty well. And that's all that needed to be done. The dampener doesn't dampen the keys completely perfectly, but it's good enough for me. It just sounds like the keys are at a half pedal resonance when the pedal is up, which sounds pretty good anyway. Now the whole vibraphone is completely finished! More pictures will be coming in the next post.