[pianotech] Reviving Felt

[Susan Kline]

If we're talking about the same piece of felt, the big supposedly cushy 
round red piece setting jack position, I've found it to be a common 
source of action noise.

The problem being, will the new one be any quieter than the used one? It 
can be a pretty firm piece of felt. There's a tradeoff between the 
exactness of regulation of the jack under the knuckle, versus the 
quietness from it being fluffy and therefore not exact. I think that the 
exactness usually wins.

Susan

On 1/15/2011 11:02 PM, Ryan Sowers wrote:
> Are you sure that is the source of the noise? Better replace one and 
> see if that's really the problem. Those are not a common source of 
> action noise, in my experience.
>
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Steven Hopp <hoppsmusic at hotmail.com 
> <mailto:hoppsmusic at hotmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Is there any suggestion to reviving compressed but not hard jack
>     regulating button felt?  I am working on one that makes just
>     enough noise to be bothersome.  Client would pay for replacing
>     them but I was just wondering if there was an alternative I can
>     not come up with on my own.
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     Steven Hopp
>

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