Today's Puzzler

[Farrell]

AH, HA!!!!!!!!  WRONG!!!!!!

That was the wonderful RJ tip I was referring to. I heard that little guy jingling away and all the other were quiet. I thought that I had found my first loose damper lever lead. They didn't seem loose though upon closer inspection, but I thought maybe its one of those things that will only manifest themselves when installed. So I used a brass rod to tap a couple marks on the lead on each side to be sure the leads were tight. Same noise. No difference.

But I know I will run into it someday, and I will be thinking of your kind instruction at that time.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger Jolly" <roger.j@sasktel.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 10:54 AM
Subject: Re: Today's Puzzler


> 
> 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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