Challenge question: Where's the Squeek?

[Jim Coleman, Sr.]

HI Roger:

Was the squeeck coming from the damper head rubbing the plate strut? Or 
was it a squeeckey damper wire? These two could be isolated by lifting
the damper lever without the damper tray.

Jim Coleman, Sr.

On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Roger C Hayden wrote:

> This was on my own piano, a 1913 Steinway model O, as yet not rebuilt, a
> soft but audible squeeky sustaining pedal, Steinway O, 1913, all original
> stuff.
> 
> The squeek was pitched at C5, occured on the depression of the sustaining
> pedal, was not in the pedals or lyre mechanism, could be reproduced by
> pushing up on the damper tray.  
> 
> It took me 45 minutes to find it, very exasperating, but in 23 years of
> tuning, a 'first timer' for me.
> 
> I'll give more clues later if nobody gets it soon.
> 
> Roger Hayden, RPT
> 
> 
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