Are you sure that the jack is not hitting the underside of the hammer flange? Sometimes if the parts are mismatched and you have a high leverage system with a low leverage regulation (deep dip and excess jack travel), the jack can come all the up underneath and strike the hammer flange. David Love davidlovepianos@comcast.net >>I’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’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’t appear >>to be jack top hitting anything, but I can’t find the source of the >>noise. This is particularly frustrating because I’m usually pretty good >>at diagnosing this sort of thing. I’m getting this piano ready for a >>concert this Friday, so I’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 > >Greg Newell >Greg's piano Forté >mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net > >_______________________________________________ >caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives Blaine Vesely, Piano Technician Kent State University School of Music Kent, Ohio 44242 office: 330-672-2898 fax: 330-672-7837 email: bvesely@kent.edu _______________________________________________ caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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