Loose set screw bullet in the damper flange or missing - hard sost. tab cloth? ----- Original Message ----- From: <JIMRPT@AOL.COM> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2000 2:32 PM Subject: Re: Puzzler for a quite Sunday. :-) > > <<"My guess is that the damper upstop rail screw was loose. The other theory > is > that the upstop rail was missing some felt. But on a fairly new piano, I > would have to go with the loose screw. > Willem">> > > Nope, the damper upstop rail screws were all good and tight and all the felt > was intact. :-) > jb > > > <<"Without being there this is just a guess, but the occasional nature of the > > click hints at the damper action ,damper lever to key interaction , upstop > > rail? Now I`m really guessing. Tom Driscoll">> > > Well Tom sometimes "being there" don't help all that much either. :-) > Your thinking followed mine, care to pinpoint a little closer? > jb > > <<"Bare spot where fallboard felt should be (for whatever reason)? Or > contaminated/hardened area of fallboard felt? > Paul S. Larudee, RPT">> > No Paul, not in this instance. > jb > > HINT: There was a playing level where the "click" was only apparent in the > middle key but as the playing level got progressivly harder the "click" > appeared in the two adjacent keys. > Jim Bryant (FL)
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