Midnight Puzzler

[Michael Jorgensen]

Jim,
     Could it be that the key end felts are just glancing the damper levers due
to severe action misalignment causing occasional knocking/ticking noises of key
ends on neighbors' damper levers or keys getting held up by them.  Only happens
when the cheek block is in because the una chorda must be depressed to get the
bass end cheek block in on this particular piano?
-Mike

Dang it, I forgot how to spell una corda.

JIMRPT@AOL.COM wrote:

> Hey here's a relatively easy one. :-)
>
> Piano: Sojin Grand
>
> Problem: Keys in the treble sticking occasionally and not always the same
> key(s).
>
> Symptoms: Key bushings were free and clear, balance holes were loose almost
> pully, whippen and hammer flanges free to very minor friction, sticking
> problem only in treble area but there was a 'slight' occasional ticking noise
> on every key throughout the scale. The problem seemed to disappear with the
> action out of the piano, and before the cheek blocks and fallboard were
> reinstalled.
>
> Question: What it was? :-)
> Jim Bryant (FL)