Greetings, << Pressing on the >>soundboard at one point does help alleviate it. >> Since this is a Steinway, there is another thing that may be considered. You may have a partially driven through hitch pin that is touching the soundboard. I couldn't believe it, but last summer I was swinging a soundboard steel around under the plate of a 1984 B when it happened to hit something that shouldn't have been there. I tried again and found that when the steel was just slightly off the board, it kept hitting something very solidly and metallic under the plate around C7. I figured it would be a foreign object, but after about three bangs with the steel, I heard something go clink and roll around. Gradually pushing it toward the back of the bridge, I finally saw that it was a hitch-pin, and when I got it out, I saw that the top of it had been drilled into. All the years that piano was used, (and there had been a slight mention of a rattle during the summer months), this pin, which I am sure was broken off and then supposedly driven through, and been just barely in contact with the soundboard. Pressing on the board would have stopped this noise, too. Regards, Ed Foote RPT http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html <BR><BR><BR>**************<BR>It's Tax Time! Get tips, forms, and advice on AOL Money & Finance.<BR> (http://money.aol.com/tax?NCID=aolprf00030000000001)</HTML>
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