Noisy action

[Carl Meyer]

Susan!  If you do this in the field, just watch you don't get caught with an
open bottle of vodka in your car.  The cop may think you're stinkin' from
drinkin'.

Cheers!

Carl Meyer

----- Original Message -----
From: "Susan Kline" <sckline@home.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 4:51 PM
Subject: Re: Noisy action


> Hi, André
>
> >OK, so if I understand correctly, Susan, you apply vodka to the cloth
> >underneath the wippen?
>
> Yes, just a little, to the dent, with the action stack upside down.
>
>
> >If there are serious dents in the cloth, why not just renew it? It is
clear
> >to most of us, I think, that this is the main reason for action noise?
> Well, this is for pianos where there isn't time or money to renew it.
> I like this idea because I can make a difference in just a few minutes.
Also,
> with new cloth one will have to adjust the hammer blow, have it played
> in, and then come back and adjust it again. If the old cloth in the dent
> gets just a _little_ bit fluffier, it probably will go back to what it
> had been when it was last regulated. Or at least, one can hope so.
>
> If the old cloth can be convinced that it should act like young cloth,
> why not? It's already there. No need to haul the thing to your shop,
> either.
>
> Of course, one has to evaluate what sort of results one is getting ...
> I haven't done the wippen cloth with vodka much, but I use it on bright
> hammers more and more, and I really like the results. I particularly
> like not having to remove felt. With a cautious and abstemious hand,
> two passes, and a little needling to even things out, a brash piano
> can be wonderfully improved in 20 minutes or so.
>
> Best,
>
> Susan