Backcheck noise

[David Love]

Click like but not exactly a click.  Hard to describe.

David Love
davidlovepianos at comcast.net 
www.davidlovepianos.com

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of David Ilvedson
Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 9:05 AM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: RE: Backcheck noise

I was going to ask the same thing...it must be a click?

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044


----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Ric Brekne" <ricbrek at broadpark.no>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Received: 8/5/2006 3:13:53 AM
Subject: Backcheck noise


>Just what kind of noise are we talking about ?  Can you describe it a 
>bit.  Have read through just about every thing on this thread and cant 
>seem to find a description of the noise you are talking about.

>Cheers
>RicB

>It's a new Steinway and the fit seems good.  It's happening throughout the
>piano (though it's most audible in the treble) and seems to be getting
>worse.  Whether it's leather, Ecsaine, or some other synthetic, I'm not
sure
>and will have to go back and check it more carefully.  The knuckles were
>definitely something artificial.  If leather, treatment with lanolin is
>something I've heard about but not ever tried.  Lanolin should absorb into
>the leather, I would think, and not get gummy.

>David Love
>davidlovepianos at comcast.net
>www.davidlovepianos.com