---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Did the noise happen when the right pedal was down? I thought of a spoon with a spot of glue on it eating a hole through the damper lever felt, but that would probably clack before the hammer hit the string. Susan At 10:29 PM 7/30/2005 -0700, you wrote: >Hi Guyz-n-Galz: > I had an interesting encounter with an Acrosonic the other day. The > customer complained about a click/squeak noise on some notes, which she > clearly noted on a card. I was unable to hear what she was hearing, but > said that if we tuned the piano first, the noise might become more easily > heard. So, I did a double pass tuning, which sounded all right to me, > and asked if she still heard the noise. She played the notes which she > objected to, and said the sound was still there. We played around with > the notes, until I finally heard something. It was a noise, like a faint > squeak, that appeared upon release of the key. I was thinking the jack > cushion felt on the butt was the culprit, but that wasn't it. I removed > the wooden sticker from the action and after a few minutes of fussing > around with the wippen, found the source of the noise. See if you can > guess what the cause (and remedy) was.&nb! >sp; Hint: the jack had nothing to do with the noise. > >Paul > > >Paul McCloud >San Diego ><mailto:pmc033@earthlink.net>pmc033@earthlink<mailto:pmc033@earthlink.net>.net >EarthLink Revolves Around You. > ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/3e/a8/20/63/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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