<html> <body> Albert, Since you said all the HB flanges were loose, I'd also check the wippen flanges. Might help. Avery <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">-------- Original Message -------- Subject: <x-tab>       </x-tab>[admin] some "oddly noisy" Baldwin 45"/Hamilton actions.......... Date: <x-tab>  </x-tab>Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:39:09 -0600 From: <x-tab>  </x-tab>Albert Thomas <thomaaw@auburn.edu> To: <x-tab>    </x-tab><pianotech-owner@ptg.org> Situation:   Occasionally I find an extraordinarily noisy Baldwin/studio action.........sounds as though every shank-to-hammer glue bond is broken,  every hammer flange is loose,  etc......... To briefly describe it using a recent occurrence instead of a longwinded generic summary :  a recent customer so far out of town that the time zone  included mention of the last century;  it is the last piano on that time-warp tour, and running far into after-dark hours "right smack" in the greatroom of the jolly and noisy family, I encounter the bizarre noisemaker ("of course they have never noticed it, God bless 'em indeed though, great locally-successful people trying to feed me supper, cookies and sodas")  The basic "harp" of the approx.- 35 year old Hamilton was very good, but the action parts were odd in that the shanks were spinet-diameter;  all hammer flanges were loose but I tightened them;  not one single shank-to-hammer glue joint was broken although most glue joints were obviously on the short side of quality-control;  there was a functioning DamppChaser dehumidifier with No Humidistat (they are adamant to have that corrected,  they understood the explanation perfectly.........the first such explanation they had ever received) etc. but......    the bottom line,   more than 50 % of noise remained after repairing one jack stirrup brokengluejoint , tightening all hammer flanges,  and ...........however having to tune and leave in some hurry without a total research of the rest of the action..........my fault and time fault.........        any suggestions?   happens rarely enough that I have failed to do follow-up research during several occurrences over so many years.........I need a tightly-focused suggestion if possible,  since it is easier to find every problem in an institutional piano serviced often, but easy for me to forget to research the outlying time-pressure pianos seen only once or twice in a lifetime............ Albert Thomas,  Associate Member PTG,   Bach. Mus. and Med., Master of Music Piano Performance Auburn University Albert Thomas Piano Service,  Auburn, Alabama;   Compton, Arkansas _______________________________________________ pianotech list info: <a href="https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives" eudora="autourl"> https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives</a> </blockquote></body> </html>