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<DIV>Was it bridle wire rubbing on backcheck?</DIV>
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<DIV>Dave Stahl</DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 7/31/05 8:28:15 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
skline@peak.org writes:</DIV>
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=2>Did the
noise happen when the right pedal was down? <BR><BR>I thought of a spoon w=
ith
a spot of glue on it eating a hole through the damper lever felt, but that=
would probably clack before the hammer hit the string. <BR><BR>Susan<BR><B=
R>At
10:29 PM 7/30/2005 -0700, you wrote:<BR><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite">Hi
Guyz-n-Galz:<BR> I had an interesting encounter with a=
n
Acrosonic the other day. The customer complained about a click/squ=
eak
noise on some notes, which she clearly noted on a card. I wa=
s
unable to hear what she was hearing, but said that if we tuned the piano=
first, the noise might become more easily heard. So, I did a doubl=
e
pass tuning, which sounded all right to me, and asked if she still heard=
the
noise. She played the notes which she objected to, and said the so=
und
was still there. We played around with the notes, until I finally
heard something. It was a noise, like a faint squeak, that appeare=
d
upon release of the key. I was thinking the jack cushion felt on t=
he
butt was the culprit, but that wasn't it. I removed the wooden sti=
cker
from the action and after a few minutes of fussing around with the wippe=
n,
found the source of the noise. See if you can guess what the cause=
(and remedy) was.&nb!<BR>sp; Hint: the jack had nothing to do with t=
he
noise. <BR> <BR>Paul<BR> <BR> <BR>Paul McCloud<BR>S=
an
Diego<BR><A title=mailto:pmc033@earthlink.net
href="mailto:pmc033@earthlink.net">pmc033@</A>earthlink<A
title=mailto:pmc033@earthlink.net
href="mailto:pmc033@earthlink.net">.net</A><BR>EarthLink Revolves Arou=
nd
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