<font color='black' size='2' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'> <div><font style="background-color: transparent;" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">David</font></div> <div> </div> <div>I had a similar problem once with a Hamilton. When I pressed the sustain, a few damper levers were hitting the plate in the mid treble section of the piano, creating a clicking sound. </div> <div> </div> <div>Unless this was a problem that was ignored in the factory, the reason the dampers levers are hitting the strings is because the distance between the strings and the damper levers is decreased. There are only two reason for this to happen. Either the key bed has moved closer to the string, or the strings have moved closer to the keybed. </div> <div> </div> <div>I would suspect the latter, and look for a cracked plate. (I also presume the piano was badly out of tune and 50 or more cents flat.)</div> <div> </div> <div>Wim</div> <div></div> <div style="clear: both;"> <div> </div> </div> <div></div> <div></div> <div style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">-----Original Message-----<br> From: David Love <davidlovepianos@comcast.net><br> To: pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org><br> Sent: Mon, Sep 24, 2012 4:23 am<br> Subject: [pianotech] Odd upright event<br> <br> <div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" id="AOLMsgPart_0_c42bee9c-a6c3-4cc4-97f1-4d02e72a3e09"> <pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>Was tuning this story and clark upright the other day and it had an odd problem. When the sustain pedal was depressed and just after the dampers cleared the strings, the bottom of the damper levers near the bass tenor break contacted the bass strings. Made a rather awful sound as you can imagine. Restricting the movement of the pedal would not have been a good fix as it would not have allowed the dampers to clear the strings adequately. Never seen something like that. I sent them back to the dealer to get it resolved as it wasn't something I wanted to invest any significant amount of time in but I'd be curious as to theories. David Love <a href="http://www.davidlovepianos.com" target="_blank">www.davidlovepianos.com</a> </tt></pre> </div>  </div> </font>