At 10:45 AM 12/22/97, Roger wrote: > One quick thing to try, sound board buttons can give this >nasty syptom, feel if you can rotate them, be careful tightening as they I tuned a relatively-new spinet with that exact rattle/buzz in it just the other day. The first thing I thought was perhaps a forgotten glass jar once used as a "humidifier" had walked its way over to the soundboard. There was no empty scum-covered jar so out came my new auto-mechanic's stethoscope, with which the noise was located almost instantly. This particular tool is a great way to find those odd rattles, squeeks and buzzes. It comes with a long thin removeable probe which reaches almost anywhere with pinpoint accuracy. One touch of the probe to the soundboard made the noise as loud as the piano itself. A quick check of the back showed no foreign objects touching the board, and a finger on the buttons found one loose enough to spin. The noise was gone in less than two minutes and the cost was included in the pitch raise, which incidentally was done first. These stethoscopes are about $10 at discount auto-parts stores and they'll pay for themselves the first time you have a "difficult" noise. John Season's Greetings from John Musselwhite, RPT Calgary, Alberta Canada - musselj@cadvision.com http://www.cadvision.com/musselj/
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