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<div align="left"><font size="2"><font face="Arial">Just a thought but make sure there isn't something electrical "arcing" down there -- that's what I thought of when he used the word "snapping".<br/><br/>Alan Barnard<br/>Salem, MO<br/><br/>
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<hr/>Original message<br/>From: "Dave Smith"
<dsmith941@comcast.net> </dsmith941@comcast.net><br/>To: pianotech@ptg.org<br/>Received: 12/4/2007 5:25:49 PM<br/>Subject: Snap Crackle and Pop<br/><br/>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">I have a very nice customer with a nice Kawai small grand piano.. Has a Dampp Chaser system (dehumidifier with humidistat only as is customary in FL).. and a home made string cover. I've serviced his piano for several years, and just got this email. It isv always only a few cents flat from where I left it last year.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="3"><strong>I have a question.....recently, we have been hearing a popping, snapping, cracking noise coming from the piano. It's intermittent and we hear it every few minutes. Sometimes not at all. At first, one night, I thought someone was in the house. We finally decided it is probably coming from the piano. Especially at night. Does this ring a bell with you? It's not real loud and that might explain why we hear it mainly at that time. Just wondering what you think. I don't see any parts falling out of it so that's a good sign.""</strong></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Other than the Humidistat making the slight clicking at it turns on the heater bars, I dont know what to think. They do like to keep windows open. Maybe temp or humidity cycling causes random clicks in wooden joints. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Any helpful thoughts? Please avoid Gremlin, Supernatural, or haunted lines of thought, unless you are speaking from experience.\</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Dave Smith </font></div>
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