You should have roughly 1/4" play of play in the sustaining pedal (give or take) before the dampers begin to lift off from the strings as you first start to push down on the sustaining pedal. Remember, not all pianos are worth fixing and some customers look for everything after you leave. What you charged was very inexpensive compared to what most of the rest of us in here would have charged to spend an entire day working on this piano. You mentioned the piano has loose tuning pins in a private email to me. This could a part of the problem too with funny sounds he might be hearing. Some pins may have slipped. We cannot guarantee a tuning on any piano with loose pins. On pianos that have been neglected, many clients because they do not know otherwise, have the tendency to think that a tuning is "a cure all." It is not and this must be explained. Tuning has nothing to do with anything mechanical in the piano. Don't put to much time and effort into the piano and make sure the client is not taking advantage of you as it sounds to me like you didn't even work on the G note down in the bass that he is not complaining about. However, if it has something to do with the damper levers, it could be related to how you have set the sustaining pedal to engage or, there may be a piece of felt missing from underneath the pedal allowing the pedal to go down to far after it is depressed. Marcy has a good point too that it could be the backs of the damper levers hitting the strings if they are being lifted up to far. As mentioned, this is a learning experience for you. Look at it from that angle and it won't be quite so painful. Jer From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Marshall Gisondi Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 11:28 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: [pianotech] ringing dampers I forgot one thing I forgot to mention, I did loosen and tighten the sustain pedal and while it was loosened, it still had quite an afterring. It also had too much sloppiness in the pedal. I'm leaning towrd the crud on the damper felt and/or springs because when I masaged the flat sewn felt on one of the dampers, it seemed to quite it down a little. the dampers also strum the string when I press the key ever so lightly on some notes. It's quite interesting Marshall Marshall Gisondi Piano Technician Marshall's Piano Service pianotune05 at hotmail.com 215-510-9400 Graduate of The School of Piano Technology for the Blind www.pianotuningschool.org <http://www.pianotuningschool.org/> Vancouver, WA _____ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft's powerful SPAM protection. Sign up <http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469226/direct/01/> now. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100225/78624dc0/attachment-0001.htm>
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