[CAUT] pedal squeal

[Don]

Hi David,

It is a Kawai UST-7 with humidity control system that is in very nice
shape. This is the only problem it exhibits.

At 03:51 PM 3/22/2006 -0800, you wrote:
>Don, 
>
>By the way, what brand of piano...
>
>David Ilvedson, RPT
>Pacifica, California
>
>
>
>----- Original message ----------------------------------------
>From: "Susan Kline" <skline at peak.org>
>To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org>
>Received: 3/22/2006 9:58:14 AM
>Subject: Re: [CAUT] pedal squeal
>
>
>>Hi, Don
>
>>A two-hour drive complicates matters.
>
>>If you still want to stay with the felts you have (felt, not cloth?)
>>you could remove the pedal rod, polish the contact area with Flitz,
>>then spray it with a dry lube like teflon spray.
>
>>If you have a good woven action cloth of the right thickness, you could
>>cut yourself long strips of the right width (rotary cutter and
>>big mat with a metal straight edge) and take them and some
>>Elmer's with you, in case you decide to replace. Of course, if you
>>have the levers off to replace the cloth, you can then clean and lube
>>the rod.
>
>>I think that felt glazes more easily than cloth.
>
>>Oh, have fun ...
>
>>Susan
>
>>At 11:38 AM 3/22/2006 +0000, you wrote:
>>>Hi Susan,
>>>
>>>I've already burnished telfon powder into the felt--the noise came back
>>>after a number of months. What's worse is the piano is a two hour drive
>>>from where I live--so I get "one kick at the can" every year. I'm hoping
>>>for someone to post a "sure fire" cure. (hmmm fire...it is a reasonable
>>>piano so a pint of gasoline and a match are not appropriate LOL)
>>>
>>>Maybe I need to be "more agressive" with the felt and use an emery board on
>>>it to "fuff" it up?
>>>
>>>I do have a steamer device now too so may try that as well.
>
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Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.
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