<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16481" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I would hope that it isn't he plate bar but this is not uncommon. Check the tightness on the action brackets.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Another simple check ..... sometimes it maybe that the piano is significantly flat of pitch enough that the strings themselves are not settling into the dampers. I've come up to pianos that the dampers were traveling to the strings the pressure was sufficient it would seem, the piano was "in tune with itself"(I hate that notion!), ....but when you measured pitch it was flat. By simply raising pitch the tension into the dampers FIXED itself. Sometimes it's not rocket science!</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>God Bless you Kid... we've all had those days that make us question why we've wanted to be a piano tech????11</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jerry Arbeau</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>