List, By the way I seem to find a lot of Renner actions with pinning loose in the birdseye. Anyone else found this? David I. *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 6/6/01 at 11:32 AM David Ilvedson wrote: >Jeannie, > >I have a customer with Feurich 6' 4" grand, Renner action. I came into the >situation where he wasn't touching the piano and hated it because of the >excessive action noise. What I ended up doing was regulating the height of >the jack in the wippen, which was low. The noise lessened quite a bit. I >checked the pinning on the hammer flange and found the pin loose in the >birdseye. I ended up repinning the entire action. He now loves the piano >again. Check the height of the jack, its position with the knuckle and the >pinning. > >Good luck > >David I. > >*********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > >On 6/6/01 at 8:56 AM Jeannie Grassi wrote: > >>Hello All, >>I'm wondering if many of you have had a chance to tune a new Charles >Walter >>Grand? I finally got a chance yesterday. Lovely instrument. But the >>complaint from the customer was about "excessive action noise". This is >>specifically the noise that appears when the action parts (wippens, >>hammers, >>keys) are dropping back to rest position. Of course this happens in every >>action, but it did seem rather noisy for a piano of this quality with a >>Renner action. I'm wondering if this is typical of this piano and what >>might be done to improve it? >> >>The keyframe did need a little bedding but I noticed no appreciable >>difference in the noise after correcting that. The rest of the regulation >>was close enough to expect less noise. The back rail cloth was glued on >>one >>edge only, but it was the rear edge, which is the opposite to what I would >>expect. I loosened the glue joint under the cloth in some spots expecting >>to hear a huge difference, but no appreciable change. All rails, flanges, >>brackets, etc. that are supposed to be tight, were tight. >> >>Anyone have similar experience with this piano or any more ideas for this >>sort of thing in general? >> >>Thanks, >>jeannie >> >>Jeannie Grassi, RPT >>Associate Editor, Piano Technicians Journal >>mailto:jgrassi@silverlink.net
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