Clicker Action

[Avery Todd]

Hi Terry,

Congratulations. I have about 20 of that era L's around the music dept.
The click could be either one. They sound very similar most of the time.

And I _think_ there are 32 bass strings: singles A0 - E1 and doubles F1 - E2.
F2 is the first note above the bass break. I just tuned an older 'B' this
morning, so I hope I'm remembering correctly. As often as I have to tune
our 'B's, I _ought_ to know for SURE.  :-)

Avery

At 09:31 PM 01/22/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Tuned my first piano equipped with a clicker action today. S&S B. 1971. I
>had never heard the infamous teflon clicking action before. Is it common for
>it to give a nice loud click when the hammer hits the string? That's what
>this one was doing. Real bad on one note, and noticeable on several others.
>Now that I am writing this I wonder if it could have been a loose hammer.
>Hmmmm. At what point do those actions typically click, or do they just do it
>at every movement?
>
>And, how many bass strings on a S&S B?
>
>Terry Farrell
>Piano Tuning & Service
>Tampa, Florida
>mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com