What's da Buzz Baby??

[Larry Fisher]

Hi all,

A few weeks ago I posted a queery regarding some buzzing in a Kawai RX2.  I
had the opportunity to go to that piano today.  It was still buzzing in the
same place it was 6 months ago when I wedged a full diameter hammer shank
dowel betwixt the stringer and the pin block.  That ridded the buzzzzzzz for
a little while ......  long enough for me to cash the check anyway.  Well,
today I found out that it's a R-O and not a RX2 ..... if there's any
difference.  I don't know the particulars of any brands.  I just tune 'em
and fix 'em.  The buzzzzzzzz wuzzzzzzzz back ....... in the same place.  I
removed the music rack tracks, (three screws each) and under them was a
screw that passed through the stringer into the rim.  Removing them, plus
the three near the middle of the pin block/plate assy. allows for the
removal of the stringer.  I found a piece of hard wood, about .025 thick, 1
inch by 1.5 inches.  It had a remarkably uncanny similarity in pitch and
sound when I flicked it with my finger as the offending buzzzzzzz had.  I
GLUED that puppy in place with a wee bit of PVC-E glue.  I haven't the
foggiest notion what that silly piece of wood functioned as, since if it
were a shim, it no longer fit snuggly.  I should've signed it before I glued
it in place with a date on it.  Oh well.  Another opportunity to annoy
someone by name has passed me by.  Oh, uh, BTW, I only used enough glue to
barely keep that thing from BUZZZZZZing.

So, any of you caught a good buzz lately??

Bzzzzzt

Lar

                                    Larry Fisher RPT
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