[CAUT] Funny Noises

[michelle stranges]

Hiya..

I have found clicks where the rep spring coils around in the rep-lever post.

If it's loose in there (and is hitting a "hard" surface) it'll click.
(Then you'll have to shimmy it like some wild 70's disco moves) to get it 
to both work and stop clicking.

:)
Stranges

--On Monday, January 24, 2005 2:01 PM -0600 Ken Zahringer 
<ZahringerK@missouri.edu> wrote:

> Hello, all,
>
> I&#8217;m working on a Steinway D here and it has some clicks in it that
> are stubbornly resisting my best efforts to eliminate them.  This is a
> 1970 vintage piano that has some level of action rebuild done in 1993
> (before my time).  Some of this work wasn&#8217;t done particularly well,
> so over semester break I put new Renner shanks & flanges and Ronsen
> hammers on it.  It turned out very nice, but there are five notes in the
> low treble that click when played.  It initially sounded like the click
> happens at hammer impact, but I think it might be triggered by the end of
> keystroke.  The click seems to be in the wippen, since when I pull the
> action and lift the hammer out of the way, I still get a click, but if I
> hold the wippen up and strike the key, I get no click.  It doesn&#8217;t
> appear to be jack top hitting anything, but I can&#8217;t find the source
> of the noise.  This is particularly frustrating because I&#8217;m usually
> pretty good at diagnosing this sort of thing.  I&#8217;m getting this
> piano ready for a concert this Friday, so I&#8217;m beginning to be a
> little anxious.  Any experience, ideas, or wild speculations out there?
>
> Ken Z.
> --
> Ken Zahringer, RPT
> Piano Technician
> University of Missouri School of Music
> 297 Fine Arts Bldg
> Columbia, MO 65211
> 573-882-1202
> cell 573-489-7529