<HTML style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1251"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2873" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <P> <DIV>Okay wizards ; )</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Kawai GE-1, you know with the plastic action, develops zingy/buzzy notes in midrange quite suddenly.  First time at customer's house, but he said it only started a couple weeks.ago.  After investigating thoroughly above and below, and tightening many screws and experimenting (come to think of it, I didn't check the wippen flanges, doh!?) I decided it was the frontward bridge pins vaguely loosening on maybe 6 or 8 notes.     (This is New Mexico (Santa Fe area) so VERY dry most of the time)  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Anywho, CA-gluing the pins carefully where slight cracks appeared around them was my best educated effort.  Didn't help though.   </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Any thoughts for the famous mystery zing?  I checked for surrounding sympathetic zing effects; it's definitely in the piano and I think the bridge.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Probably left stuff out but thought I'd get the conjectures launched... : )</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Noel Kaufmann, RPT still unrevoked  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <P></P></BODY></HTML>