Puzzler for a quite Sunday. :-)

[Tom Driscoll]

Loose set screw bullet in the damper flange or missing - hard sost. tab
cloth?
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Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2000 2:32 PM
Subject: Re: Puzzler for a quite Sunday. :-)


>
> <<"My guess is that the damper upstop rail screw was loose. The other
theory
> is
> that the upstop rail was missing some felt. But on a fairly new piano, I
> would have to go with the loose screw.
> Willem">>
>
> Nope, the damper upstop rail screws were all good and tight and all the
felt
> was intact. :-)
> jb
>
>
> <<"Without being there this is just a guess, but the occasional nature of
the
>
> click hints at the damper action ,damper  lever to key interaction ,
upstop
>
> rail? Now I`m really guessing. Tom Driscoll">>
>
> Well Tom sometimes "being there" don't help all that much either. :-)
> Your thinking followed mine, care to pinpoint a little closer?
> jb
>
> <<"Bare spot where fallboard felt should be (for whatever reason)?  Or
> contaminated/hardened area of fallboard felt?
> Paul S. Larudee, RPT">>
> No Paul, not in this instance.
> jb
>
> HINT: There was a playing level where the "click" was only apparent in the
> middle key but as the playing level got progressivly harder the "click"
> appeared in the two adjacent keys.
> Jim Bryant (FL)