Noisy action

[David Ilvedson]

List,

By the way I seem to find a lot of Renner actions with pinning loose in the
birdseye.  Anyone else found this?

David I.

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On 6/6/01 at 11:32 AM David Ilvedson wrote:

>Jeannie,
>
>I have a customer with Feurich 6' 4" grand, Renner action.  I came into
the
>situation where he wasn't touching the piano and hated it because of the
>excessive action noise.  What I ended up doing was regulating the height
of
>the jack in the wippen, which was low.  The noise lessened quite a bit.  I
>checked the pinning on the hammer flange and found the pin loose in the
>birdseye.  I ended up repinning the entire action.  He now loves the piano
>again.  Check the height of the jack, its position with the knuckle and
the
>pinning.  
>
>Good luck
>
>David I.  
>
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>On 6/6/01 at 8:56 AM Jeannie Grassi wrote:
>
>>Hello All,
>>I'm wondering if many of you have had a chance to tune a new Charles
>Walter
>>Grand?  I finally got a chance yesterday.  Lovely instrument.  But the
>>complaint from the customer was about "excessive action noise".  This is
>>specifically the noise that appears when the action parts (wippens,
>>hammers,
>>keys) are dropping back to rest position.  Of course this happens in
every
>>action, but it did seem rather noisy for a piano of this quality with a
>>Renner action.  I'm wondering if this is typical of this piano and what
>>might be done to improve it?
>>
>>The keyframe did need a little bedding but I noticed no appreciable
>>difference in the noise after correcting that.  The rest of the
regulation
>>was close enough to expect less noise.  The back rail cloth was glued on
>>one
>>edge only, but it was the rear edge, which is the opposite to what I
would
>>expect.  I loosened the glue joint under the cloth in some spots
expecting
>>to hear a huge difference, but no appreciable change. All rails, flanges,
>>brackets, etc. that are supposed to be tight, were tight.
>>
>>Anyone have similar experience with this piano or any more ideas for this
>>sort of thing in general?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>jeannie
>>
>>Jeannie Grassi, RPT
>>Associate Editor, Piano Technicians Journal
>>mailto:jgrassi@silverlink.net