Ho Terry
Under lever lead may be loose.
Remove the underlever and spread the lead a little, or a dab of CA should
do the trick.
Don't be surprised is after you fix it, the others sound a little noisy,
but just not enough to click.
Another thing to try.
Regards Roger
At 07:55 AM 2/8/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>I'll try my hand at this game. You guys will likely beat me up pretty quickly.
>
>1940s all original Baldwin "L". Pretty good condition for its age. Piano
>teacher. Complaint: G#4 makes clicking/clunking noise - perhaps more noise
>on release of key, but some on blow. You won't hear it on a soft blow, but
>medium and harder will do it.
>
>Removed action. G#4 a bit noisy, but they all are. Don't think problem is
>in action. Find G#4 damper. Flick up from action cavity -
>"clickity-clunk". Put finger on underlever and one on damper head, push
>lift mechanism and return - "clunk". Replace damper head with quiet
>neighbor - "clunk".
>
>Nothing hitting sostenuto (is that spelled correctly?) lever.
>
>Not too many things left - what is causing noise? I thought I was going to
>be thanking Roger Jolly for an excellent tip he posted a while back - but
>that was not it either!
>
>Terry Farrell
>
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