On Jan 31, 2008 1:59 PM, Marcel Carey <mcpianos at hotmail.com> wrote: > > Mike, > > Could it have been a dampp chaser wire buzzing on one or two bass strings? > Maybe the customer opened the bottom panel to show her husband the system > and when they closed it back some part of the system interfered with the > strings? > > Marcel Carey > ________________________________ > > > > I had a call from a customer regarding her Baldwin spinet, perhaps it's > an Acrosonic by Baldwin I get them confused! Anyway she said the octave > below middle C was making some noises, not all of the notes just some. I had > been there a week or so before Christmas and tuned it after installing a > dehumidifing system about 3 weeks prior. Their house is humid 365 days a > year they run a dehumidifier in the basement year round and the RH still > runs 40% or higher most of the time on the coldest days. Yesterday it was 1 > degree and it was 44%. We are in Southwestern Wisconsin and have been having > some cold weather below zero and wind chills in the 30 and 40 below range. > > When I arrived I moved the piano out from the wall, it's one of those > one piece top and music desc jobs with the fixed music rack and started > checking things. It sounded like a loose rib or bridge rattle but there were > no cracks in the sound board and the ribs were all tight. I removed the kick > board and using my favorite piano tool that isn't one(a piano tool). I took > out my nail set placed it on the bridge pin of one of the offending notes > and tapped it to make cetain it was tight in the hole. I did the same to the > other three( it was a wound 2 string unison) I played it and the rattle was > gone! I moved on to the others and did the same and the problem was solved. > _________________________________________________________________ > > > I'm afraid not Marcel, she is a single teacher still living at home with her parents. Both parents and her sister, a college student were home when I did the install late one evening about 5:30. It was my first thought as well but I checked and the rod and humidistat were where I left them and it was a definete bridge rattle since it was only certain notes not all. Mike -- Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. Michael Magness Magness Piano Service 608-786-4404 www.IFixPianos.com email mike at ifixpianos.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080131/e09f13bf/attachment.html
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