Spinet "Squeak" Noise- Guess the fix...

Susan Kline skline@peak.org
Sun, 31 Jul 2005 20:27:56 -0700


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Did the noise happen when the right pedal was down?

I thought of a spoon with a spot of glue on it eating a hole through the 
damper lever felt, but that would probably clack before the hammer hit the 
string.

Susan

At 10:29 PM 7/30/2005 -0700, you wrote:

>Hi Guyz-n-Galz:
>     I had an interesting encounter with an Acrosonic the other day.  The 
> customer complained about a click/squeak noise on some notes, which she 
> clearly noted on a card.   I was unable to hear what she was hearing, but 
> said that if we tuned the piano first, the noise might become more easily 
> heard.  So, I did a double pass tuning, which sounded all right to me, 
> and asked if she still heard the noise.  She played the notes which she 
> objected to, and said the sound was still there.  We played around with 
> the notes, until I finally heard something.  It was a noise, like a faint 
> squeak, that appeared upon release of the key.  I was thinking the jack 
> cushion felt on the butt was the culprit, but that wasn't it.  I removed 
> the wooden sticker from the action and after a few minutes of fussing 
> around with the wippen, found the source of the noise.  See if you can 
> guess what the cause (and remedy) was.&nb!
>sp; Hint: the jack had nothing to do with the noise.
>
>Paul
>
>
>Paul McCloud
>San Diego
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