Squeaks - the bane of the technician. It's always amazed me how many piano parts can figure out some way to make the most nerve wracking squawks, rasps, purrs, clicks, thumps, etc., deliciously designed to drive even the most sedate artist(an oxymoron?) crazy before you can possibly get there to fix it! Today, I found a doozy in the treble section of a WX-1. (Yamaha) I finally isolated it to the key itself by lifting the wippen up and moving the key by itself. The culprit was a worn center rail bushing that was down to the glue. This key had the back half going off to the right about 20 degrees so that the pin was rubbing on the left bushing as it was being played. I've had this situation keep the key from returning to rest but this is the first one that squeaked! Warren -- Warren D. Fisher fish@communique.net Registered Piano Technician Piano Technicians Guild New Orleans Chapter 701
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