Puzzler

[Jon Page]

Hammer tails were hitting the flanges on release?

Solution: remove material from flanges for tail clearance
OR shorten tails :-)

Jon Page
At 09:28 AM 6/19/98 +0000, you wrote:
>Dear List,
>
>Puzzler...
>
>Feurich Grand, 6'6".  Customer complains of clatter when 
>playing.  He demonstrated by just pushing a handful of keys down 
>a bit and releasing them and what a noise.  The noise from key 
>release was very noisy, well beyond what we might live with.  I 
>pulled the action and didn't find anything in the piano like 
>pencils etc.  The former dealer tuner, who had been taking care 
>of the piano since the sale of a few years before, had not been 
>able to fix the problem and in desperation had moved up the 
>hammer rest rail so the the hammers were resting on the rail.  I 
>moved the rail down and checked the blow distance...that was OK.
>No difference in the clatter.  I was stumped until I noticed 
>something with the hammer, shanks & flanges up. 
>Any ideas about what I had to do to fix the problem...
>
>
>
>David Ilvedson, RPT
>Pacifica, CA
>ilvey@jps.net
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