What's the buzz?

[Les Smith]

Hi, Richard.

Life as a piano technician is hard enough without going out and look-
ing for problems. If this is a new Korean-made instrument and it does,
in fact, have a soundboard problem, the owner should contact the dealer
from whom it was purchased, so that it can be repaired under the terms
of its' warrrenty. Don't make the dealer's problem your problem!

Les Smith
lessmith@buffnet.net

On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, Richard Wagner wrote:

> I just received a call from a customer who owns a new vertical piano of
> Korean origin, though for now, I'll leave the manufacturers name out of the
> post.
>
> She's experiencing intermitent buzzing.
>
> When I was there a month or so ago, I found a small area around the
> perimeter of the soundboard, which was not securely glued to the rim, and
> repaired it... I thought.
>
> Needless to say, the buzz is back.
>
> I've experienced problems of this sort, with these pianos, quite frequently
> over the last few years, and have only been partially succesful in affecting
> permanent cures.
>
> In every case, when pressure is applied to the board near the area of the
> buzz, and the board is flexed, a definite "scrunching" or "creaking" noise
> can be heard, and occasionally, though not always, a starved glue joint is
> found.
>
> Is any one out there familiar with problems of this sort?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>                                                Thanks!  Richard Wagner RPT
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