Damper Chirp..

[John Formsma]

Rich,

You can check each string by plucking them individually. That will tell
how well the damper felt is contacting the strings.

Sounds like something in A5 is making the G5 damper lift. Is there
something stuck in the action, or an underlever lead out?

I'm always heartened by knowing there are only a few things that it can
possibly be - there are not infinite possibilities! Most likely, you'll
have to go down the list to figure it out.

John Formsma

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On
> Behalf Of Richard Snelson
> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 3:53 PM
> To: Pianotech
> Subject: Damper Chirp..
>
>
> The piano is a four year old Boston GP-178 grand. It has what
> I think is a
> damper chirp when playing down scale,
> A5 then G5. I think it's coming from the G5 damper. Chirp
> comes after the G5
> is played. Doesn't occur when G5 is played by itself, or when going up
> scale. A5 has to be just played for it to occur. Watching the
> damper action
> I can't see that G5 is slow. I've tried a bit of Protek on
> the damper wire
> and bushing, with no change, chirp is still there. I'm
> thinking G5 damper is
> not coming down solid on all three strings? Wanted to get
> your help before
> bending the damper head or replacing damper material.
> Rich Snelson
> Oliver Piano
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
>
>
>