Duh Udder day, I was in Tillamook county (cow country) and was asked to find a particular buzz in a K&C console piano about 15 years old or so. The C two octaves above middle C would produce a high frequency sympathetic buzzzzzzzz as the piano would go flat with time. I told her that was a built in "call the tuner" signal that cost a bunch extra when the pianner was new.......... she didn't swallow it. So I had to proceed to find the buzzzzzz before I tuned it. I cleaned out the disgusting junk found between the soundboard and filler blocks in the back of the piano, pressed on all the areas above and below the speaking lengths of the string, looked for wood chips or small pieces of wire up against the string by the bridge, I muted the non-speaking lengths of string in the neighborhood an octave up and and octave down, and started pressing on the the soundboard, plate and bridges to find this little begger. As I'd press in certain places the buzzzzzz would go away. I used a combination of my ears and pressing on places to zero in on the culprit. I put my ears up really close to the bridges and soundboard to hopefully find a difference in volume, listening only to the really high component of the note, that being the buzzzz that we're looking for. I lucked out with this proceedure and found the volume to be louder near the bass bridge. Pressing sensitively on the bass bridge and the strings I found the buzzzz to be coming from the #3 bass string betwixt the two bridge pins. I reseated the string, plus all the others on the bass bridge, and for some additional peace of mind, I drove those two bridge pins in a wee hair. No buzzzzz, happy customer, job insurance for the future, money in my pocket, smile on my face. Gotta go. Lar Larry Fisher RPT, Metro Portland, Oregon's Factory Preferred Installer for MSR/PianoDisc Products phone 360-256-2999 or email larryf@pacifier.com http://pacifier.com/~larryf/homepage.html (revised 5/96) Beau Dahnker pianos work best under water
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