> It's not a rattling or buzzing kind of sound. It's more of a > distorted sound where about half the normal power of the string > is lost & it just sounds weird. Like I said in my original post, > I'll just bet there's some grooving of some kind inside the > agraffe holes and thereby creating a termination problem. Avery, Is it one agraffe, or a number of them in a row all making the noise? If it's a number in a row all making the noise, the noise isn't coming from the agraffes. Is the noise contained within one wire size, or more than one? If more than one, it's not the wire. Is the noise the same from unison to unison? If so, it's not hammer to string mating and, it's likely either a sympathetic coming from somewhere in the piano, or it's time to suspect the soundboard. Did you take crown measurements (all over) while you were there, as well as checking for bearing? This piano has vertical hitches, yes? If so, you can't assume anything at all about the soundboard by checking overall bearing, as bearing could have easily been increased by the store tech in an attempt to fix or disguise the problem. If the board is concave, it's too easy to have negative front bearing with positive bearing overall. That won't necessarily cause this problem, but it can. I'd also try clamping a jumbo vise grip to a rear bridge pin in the middle of the problem area and see what that does. If it helps, the board's a goner. Don't make the mistake of all the owners of pianos I've condemned in their living rooms, that whatever the problem is will be easily and cheaply fixable by the tech. Since the tech in this case is you, know what you've got before you let them buy it. Ron N
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