[pianotech] Bass Key Slap

[bergpiano]

I agree with Don.

Dan Berg

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Mannino" <donmannino at ca.rr.com>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 7:28 PM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Bass Key Slap


> My first thought is the keyframe needs bedding.
>
> Don Mannino
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On 
> Behalf
> Of Arlie Rauch
> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 4:27 PM
> To: pianotech at ptg.org
> Subject: [pianotech] Bass Key Slap
>
> I was tuning a customer's Steinway today, and she wanted me to look also 
> at
> her Schimmel grand.  She heard noises, in the key she thought, in the 
> lowest
> notes.  I couldn't hear it at first, but then I did when thumping the 
> lowest
> 8 or so notes--it sounded like a slap when the bottom of the key contacted
> the front rail felt.  First I thought maybe the front rail felt is too 
> hard,
> but on my hour-drive home, I thought maybe the cause is elsewhere.  Why 
> can
> you hear that on the lowest bass notes, but when you play up higher the
> sound is gone?  Maybe something is loose at the bass end in the action or
> the keybed.  Any suggestions?  I hope to remedy this sometime when I go
> back.
>
> Arlie Rauch
> Glendive, MT
>