<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Re: [CAUT] Funny Noises</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> on 1/24/05 14:01, Ken Zahringer at ZahringerK@missouri.edu wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE>Hello, all, Išm working on a Steinway D here and it has some clicks in it that are stub= bornly resisting my best efforts to eliminate them.  This is a 1970 vin= tage piano that has some level of action rebuild done in 1993 (before my tim= e).  Some of this work wasnšt done particularly well, so over semester = break I put new Renner shanks & flanges and Ronsen hammers on it.  = It turned out very nice, but there are five notes in the low treble that cli= ck when played.  It initially sounded like the click happens at hammer = impact, but I think it might be triggered by the end of keystroke.  The= click seems to be in the wippen, since when I pull the action and lift the = hammer out of the way, I still get a click, but if I hold the wippen up and = strike the key, I get no click.  It doesnšt appear to be jack top hitti= ng anything, but I canšt find the source of the noise.  This is particu= larly frustrating because Išm usually pretty good at diagnosing this sort of= thing.  Išm getting this piano ready for a concert this Friday, so Išm= beginning to be a little anxious.  Any experience, ideas, or wild spec= ulations out there? Ken Z. </BLOCKQUOTE> Hi Ken,    Have you checked the capstans to make sure they are not = loose in the key?  Or the back check wire is loose maybe? </BODY> </HTML>