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<DIV>Hi Tom,</DIV>
<DIV>I suspect that there is something attached to the felt on the edge =
of the
fallboard. or loose felt with hard glue making a noise against the =
wood.</DIV>
<DIV>Joe Goss RPT<BR>Mother Goose Tools<BR><A
href="mailto:imatunr@srvinet.com">imatunr@srvinet.com</A><BR><A
href="http://www.mothergoosetools.com">www.mothergoosetools.com</A></DI=
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A =
title=pianotech@ptg.org
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, January 11, =
2006 7:51
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> mystery click =
puzzler</DIV>
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<DIV>List</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Here's a puzzler for you all; an unsolved puzzler at that. =
I've
executed a repair, but I have no idea why it works...</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Kawai grand, about 15 years old. There's a click on =
F#2, G#2,
and A#2 when the key is depressed. Not when it's released but at =
the
moment they're depressed quickly. (It won't happen on a slow
strike.)</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I take the action out to check for loose screws, debris on the =
keys, any
anomaly, but nothing. In fact, the click is gone. I did =
tighten
one screw on one of the action rails, so, maybe that was it...</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Put the action back in, still no click. Reinstall the cheek =
blocks,
still no click. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>When I put the fallboard back on, there's the click again. =
Pull the
fallboard forward to a 45 degree angle, no click. Back to =
vertical,
click,</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>OK. The keys must be hitting the fallboard, but wait a
minute. It happens when the key goes down, not up. The =
fallboard
does not extend backwards inside all the way to the back side of the =
balance
rail, so when the key goes down, there is MORE clearance from the
fallboard. If the click was on the way up, I'd say it was =
hitting the
fallboard when it returned to the up position, but it happens on the =
way
DOWN!</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Am I just stupid? Am I missing something here?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>My solution? I raised the fallboard so that there was =
more
clearance from the keys and now there's no click. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>But how can the keys strike the fallboard on their way down and =
make a
noise? It doesn't make sense.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>It's not the upstop rail being depressed by the fallboard (That =
click
would happen on the way up, too.). I put felt on the backside of =
the
fallboard at the point where the keys would come into contact with it =
if that
was the problem to see if that changed the sound or eliminated it,, =
but it
didn't have any impact.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I guess I should move on, because I fixed the
problem. But I just want to know: what caused the
click?<BR></DIV>
<DIV>Any ideas? Did I describe this well enough? </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Tom Sivak</DIV>
<DIV>Chicago </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></BODY></HTML>