Maintenance

I acquired a Yamaha YV-1600 that seems to have been stored in a rather dusty and humid environment. I just finished cleaning it completely, getting crud out of the resonators and using about a hundred Q-Tips to get all the dirt out of every crevice.

The good news is that I was able to give it a complete inspection and there is little to no damage. Everything is intact and I don't need to locate any replacement parts.

The bad news is that the motor doesn't work and the felt on the damping bar is pretty messed, so I have a few questions:

hey,
does anybody know if the bars and resonators of a very old musser century vibe fit on a newer m55 modell?

tarik

What are the dimensions of the dampening rod for both companies?

The yamaha pedal is heavier in weight And giving me hip problems . My ideal is to put the musser pedal on the yamaha.

I bought a used Musser M7055G (An M55G mounted on a cart) and I'm very happy with my purchase. But I'm having a problem with the damper pedal. Dampening is not even. Left, middle and right sides do not damper the same way. The center is too muted while the left and right sides still have some ringing. I can't get it to have an even sound when pedal is not pressed.

Hi Everyone, I recently acquired a Deagan Commander 593 vibraphone. It was in pretty good shape when I got it, but also needed some work. I've managed to get most of it running smoothly, but I'm having some trouble with the pedal tension. It takes an awful lot of energy to push the pedal down. I have the spring adjusted so that the bar dampens the keys evenly, but I'm not aware of how to adjust the spring tension itself, so that the pedal is physically easier to push down. Is this a matter of replacing the spring? Am I missing something obvious? Thanks.

Hi All-

I'm having some new problems with my motor, wonder if anyone's ever encountered anything similar. I suspect that the trouble's originating with the specialized parts I had made to allow me to control vibrato speed with a volume-style pedal, but I wanted to make sure it's not the actual motor itself.

Hey All,

My Malletkat seems to have a few loose sensors so that sometimes the notes are soft or even totally dead. I used to live in Boston so I could easily take it to the Kat factory in Central Mass. but I have moved to Oakland and would prefer to avoid the shipping costs to send the unit across the country. Anyone know of some one in the bay area that could help with this?

Pete

Hi everyone!

I was wondering if anyone has advice on how to sort a problem that i have with my vibraphone. Its a yamaha yv-2500 and in the top octave for some reason some of the accidentals touch the 'natural' bars and when you hit them you get a really nasty metal on metal sound. I've tried moving the bars and around and they keep slipping back to that position where they touch. Anyone encountered this before, got any advice/suggestions?

Cheers
Tim