At 01:22 PM 12/14/97 -0500, you wrote: > Dear List, > > I tuned a Wurlitzer Spinet yesterday. D4 makes an annoying click that > sounds like two pieces of wood being hit together every time it is > played. In fact, if you press the key all the way down, let it up > just slightly (not enough for the Jack to return under the hammer > butt) and press it down again it will click again. I spent around 20 > minutes looking at the note from every angle and just could not see > what was causing it. The hammer, damper flanges and pins were all > tight. The jack is firmly against the let off and all felt is in > place. The sound comes from the top and not the bottom of the action. > > Do any of you have suggestions or experience with what is making the > noise? > > Thanks, > > Glen > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Glen and Ruth Deligdisch > P.O. Box 248 > Waxhaw, NC 28173 > > Tel: (704) 843-0989 > > E-mail: Glen_Deligdisch@SIL.ORG > > > Glen, did you check that the catcher was also tightly glued? It sounds just like a loose hammer head when the glue joint fails. Did you check where the spoon contacts the damper lever felt or cloth? Sometimes there's a gob of glue there, or the spoon can eat through felt if there's roughness. If the hammer spring doesn't have a punching, but just rides against a dratted teflon coating it can get noisy. Put a little VJ lube in an umbrella rib and run it between the spring and notch. If you hadn't said it sounded woody, I would have suggested that the jack spring might be making a noise. Sometimes pulling or rebending them gets rid of nasty little noises. Good luck. If it isn't anything I mentioned, could you please tell us when you figure it out? Always good to add to one's noise catalog. Sincerely, Susan Susan Kline P.O. Box 1651 Philomath, OR 97370 skline@proaxis.com "I'm glad that there are at least some things somewhere that I don't have to do today." -- Ashleigh Brilliant
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