[pianotech] wooden click at letoff?...reprise

[Laura Olsen]

Possibly....

Laura O
On Jan 5, 2013, at 1:59 PM, Ron Nossaman wrote:

> On 1/5/2013 1:24 PM, Jim Ialeggio wrote:
> 
>> Is the click intermittent or consistent...ie, does it  happening every
>> time, every stroke?
> 
> You may possibly have heard me say this at one time or another, but I don't know that I've ever run across anything that's absolutely, unfailingly, purely binary 100% yes or no. So no, not necessarily. The clicks also come and go with humidity changes, as makes sense considering the dimensional changes in the wooden under lever, which can make the noise source hard to verify.
> 
> 
>> Does the click on a particular note have a consistent sound, or does it
>> change with different key velocities?  Or does the click only appear at
>> higher velocities?
> 
> They aren't all that rule oriented and dependable, in my experience. Not good team players. If you glue or swage the leads in the suspected under lever and the noise immediately stops and doesn't come back, that was possibly it.
> 
> Ron N

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