I had the exact same experience with a Yamaha C7 and the cure prescribed below cured immediately the problem. S.P. On 11/19/06 12:15 AM, "WilsonianJ at aol.com" <WilsonianJ at aol.com> wrote: > Dear Geoff, > > I have a sneaking suspicion that the dampers are "crusty" and are "sizzling" > upon contact with the strings. Your client may have only now noticed after > listening more intently to your tuning. I highly doubt that the issue was > caused by your tuning, but your client may believe differently. The quick fix > for sizzling dampers is to remove the damper and soften the felt a bit. It > doesn't take much so if you very conservatively scratch the surface of the > felt, you should ameliorate the problem. Roughing up the felt too much will > cause leaking dampers. Try it on one or two first to see if that's the > problem. > > Good luck, Geoff, > > Jim Wilson, RPT > L.A. Chapter > > > > In a message dated 11/18/06 7:34:07 PM, thetuner at ivories52.com writes: > > > Greetings all -- > > Last week I tuned a customers Kawai grand piano. The customer was out of town > so he left me a key to his studio. He returned the other day and while he is > happy with the tuning and the other repair work I completed he mentioned that > all the wound strings are now exhibiting a buzz when the damper comes into > contact with the played string. Once the damper has completely engaged the > buzzing stops and the strings damp correctly. He says it is objectionably > noticeable only on the entire wound bass string section of the piano. This is > not something that I noticed while I was there so I'm curios as to your > thoughts on what could have caused this and what I might be able to do to > affect a timely fix. FWIW, he lives a couple of miles from the beach but has a > DC de-humidifier installed. The piano also lives in a small, relatively well > sealed but otherwise non-climate controlled garage studio. > > -- Geoff Sykes > -- Assoc. Los Angeles. > > > > -- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20061119/630c4e9d/attachment.html
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