<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; = charset=us-ascii"> <TITLE>Message</TITLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2716.2200" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><SPAN class=400462521-10112002><FONT = face=Arial>Ric,</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=400462521-10112002><FONT face=Arial>I did write = this....I replied to it.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=400462521-10112002><FONT = face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=400462521-10112002><FONT = face=Arial>jeannie</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV></DIV> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr = align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] <B>On = Behalf Of </B>Richard Brekne<BR><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, November 10, 2002 1:10 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Pianotech<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Squeeky jack spring??!<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>Jeannie Grassi wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE="CITE"> <STYLE></STYLE> <FONT face=Arial><FONT size=-1>Help! Please! I've a customer = with a newer Kawaii grand with wood whippens and black plastic jacks. She has = noticed (I confess I can barely, and never would have heard it) a slight = rubbing sort of sound when a couple of keys are played very softly and slowly. Looks/sounds to me like sound occurs when jack is activated. I = notice that jack spring on her piano goes into a hole in the jack which appears = to be a looser fit than my older Kawaii with wooden jacks, I've tried a tiny = drop of clp lube in spring hole on jack and on jack centerpin with no = result. I'm pretty sure sound is coming from jack area, Anyone have a similar experience?! What do I do?  Thanks in advance for all advice!!   Jon</FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <P>You might look a bit closer at the spring itself. Sometimes the = darn things are bent such that they come in contact with the wood of the lower = whippen arm. Or they might be moving against the wood of the post the upper = arm is hinged on. <P>Sometimes just removing a guilty part and looking a bit closer at = it removed from the action can reveal the source of the problem as well. <P>Fortunatly, these kinds of action noises are most always relatively = easy to locate. <P>RicB <BR>  <P>-- <BR>Richard Brekne <BR>RPT, N.P.T.F. <BR>UiB, Bergen, Norway = <BR><A href="mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no">mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no</A> = <BR><A = href="http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html">http://home.broad= park.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html</A> <BR>  </P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>