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="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Greetings, <BR>
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Thats pro=
bably what it is. How is it remedied? New dampers?<BR>
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Julia<BR>
Reading, PA<BR>
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In a message dated 4/1/05 12:00:03 PM Pacific Standard Time, pianotech@a440=
piano.net writes:<BR>
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I would check the damper felts for noise when they lift. This is a ver=
y<BR>
common issue with Kawai grands that I see. The felts are just too darn=
<BR>
long, extending well below the string line, and, consequently create a lot<B=
R>
of noise when lifting. See if that's not the case. Try "playing"=
notes<BR>
with a mp type motion, but stop before the hammer hits the strings, listen<B=
R>
for the individual damper swishing the strings. Alternately (also) try=
<BR>
depressing the sustain pedal, and listen to the grand whoosh that these<BR>
dampers likely will make. See if that's not what ails her.<BR>
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Respectfully,<BR>
William R. Monroe<BR>
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