Kohller And Campbell click

[Robin Blankenship]

If the hammer "rest" rail is set too low (because the nuts regulating this
have worked their way down the threaded rods that they are on) then the tip
of the hammer can contact  wood as it returns.

Robin

----- Original Message -----
From: <Wimblees@AOL.COM>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 7:04 PM
Subject: Re: Kohller And Campbell click


>In a message dated 1/21/00 10:18:42 PM !!!First Boot!!!, tito@PhilBondi.com
>writes:
>
><< I have on my hands a noisy action - it clicks just as the key comes to
>rest on
> the back rail cloth.
>
> What has been done in the past to this action(grand) was all the Jack
Buttons
> were changed, and that 'seemed' to make the customer happy for awhile..but
>now
> she is unhappy again, and the 'click' is back - I needled a couple of
>buttons,
> but that's not the problem.
>
> any ideas/suggestions for a Rook? .. I'm guessing the Whippen flanges need
>to be
> re-bushed/re-pinned...?
>
> Rook
>  >>
>
>
>If the key clicks when it comes to rest on the back rail, then there is no
>connection with the jack buttons (regulating buttons). If you are referring
>to the wippen cushion, (the felt that sits on the capstan screw), then when
>you "voiced" it, the click should have been reduced. But since it didn't
make
>any difference, then that is not the problem.
>
>My first inclination would be to check the hammer rest rail. If that rail
>isn't tightened down, when the hammer shanks hits it, it will cause a
click.
>
>Willem Blees.