<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Funny Noises</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> Hello, all, I’m working on a Steinway D here and it has some clicks in it that ar= e stubbornly resisting my best efforts to eliminate them.  This is a 19= 70 vintage piano that has some level of action rebuild done in 1993 (before = my time).  Some of this work wasn’t done particularly well, so ov= er semester break I put new Renner shanks & flanges and Ronsen hammers o= n it.  It turned out very nice, but there are five notes in the low tre= ble that click when played.  It initially sounded like the click happen= s at hammer impact, but I think it might be triggered by the end of keystrok= e.  The click seems to be in the wippen, since when I pull the action a= nd lift the hammer out of the way, I still get a click, but if I hold the wi= ppen up and strike the key, I get no click.  It doesn’t appear to= be jack top hitting anything, but I can’t find the source of the nois= e.  This is particularly frustrating because I’m usually pretty g= ood at diagnosing this sort of thing.  I’m getting this piano rea= dy for a concert this Friday, so I’m beginning to be a little anxious.=  Any experience, ideas, or wild speculations out there? Ken Z. -- Ken Zahringer, RPT Piano Technician University of Missouri School of Music 297 Fine Arts Bldg Columbia, MO 65211 573-882-1202 cell 573-489-7529 </BODY> </HTML>