Clyde: Where the catchers glued in well? dave *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 2/27/2003 at 4:34 PM Clyde Hollinger wrote: >Friends, > >I came across a new one today, I think. 1983 Everett school model >studio piano. While tuning I would hear a woody-sounding click on >nearly every note, very consistent, similar to the sound you get if a >jack tip lost its felt. Nothing I checked seemed to diminish the sound >until I took a length of 1.0mm center pin bushing cloth and held it >where it would get sandwiched between the backcheck and the catcher when >the key was depressed. That squelched the noise markedly. The >backchecks have only 1/8" or 5/32" of felt, which is not all that >unusual, I guess, but it seemed pretty hard to me. > >So I think what I need to do is replace all the backchecks, but because >I've never run into this before, I'm asking if anyone has ever had to do >this on a piano only twenty years old. Is this indeed the problem, or >does it just *appear* to be when it's actually something else? Thanks! > >Regards, >Clyde > >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives _____________________________ David M. Porritt dporritt@mail.smu.edu Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 _____________________________
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