<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:garamond,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Terry -<br><br>Just serviced a Baldwin spinet yesterday with rock-hard grommets that crumbled on the 4 keys I needed to remove to ease.  However, they surprisingly were not noisy, and I wonder if it is because there was a thin felt punching between the nut and the grommet.  Would only take you a minute to find out, I guess.  Try a hitch pin punching or thin balance rail punching between nut and grommet.  It *might* work.  (And might not!)<br><br>Still, if the piano has any age to it - and it surely does - I would think a new set of grommets would be in order if you're gonna remove the nut anyway to include a felt punching.<br><br>Mark Potter<br></div><div style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Terry Farrell <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> pianotech@ptg.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thu, February 28, 2013 6:48:10 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [pianotech] Noisy Baldwin Spinet<br></font><br> Got a noisy Baldwin spinet. The rubber grommets on the ends of the keys are not real soft, but a not rock hard by any means - they are still soft enough to remove and replace into the metal forks. However, much noise is made upon key release. I'm pretty sure it's coming from an impact between the hard nut and the somewhat firm rubber grommet. Has anyone else run into this and found that replacing the original rubber grommets with new solved the problem? Or were these spinets noisy on day one?<div><br></div><div>Terry Farrell<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:medium;"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:medium;">Terry Farrell <<a saprocessedanchor="true" rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com">mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:medium;"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:medium;">February 28, 2013 6:36:36 AM EST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:medium;"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:medium;">Terry Farrell <<a saprocessedanchor="true" rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com">mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:medium;"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:medium;"><b>IMG_0419</b><br></span></div><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word;"><div><img id="72d4aa52-4b5d-4e9b-aada-1a5b5a3e9da0" src="cid:1.2544061004@web184301.mail.ne1.yahoo.com" height="240" width="320"><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;min-height:14px;"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica;" face="Helvetica" size="3">IMG_0419</font></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px;"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica;" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;min-height:14px;"><br></div> </div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div> </div></body></html>