<HTML>In a message dated 03/27/2002 11:46:18 PM Eastern Standard Time, Wimblees@AOL.COM writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">I am not sure what I did to the knuckles when I filed them. But when I did, it stopped the noise all together. I guess it took enough roughness, and maybe a little corrosion, off the leather, to stop the squeak. </BLOCKQUOTE> Wim,list,  This made me think of filing hammers.On spinet pianos (or any really) that sound like a tin can,I have lightly scuffed up the hammer felt (on the final pass),and the piano tone, and tuning, sound a million times better,as some of the unwanted overtones are quieted down.Also it's easier to get really clean unisons,listening quietly.Unfortunately,it's a temporary thing,but the customers really like it.It's good to ask first,but you can usally tell who would want the brassy sound or not by talking to them. A friend of mine turned me on to a product called dragon skin,which workes great for this, also great for reshaping hammers. Hazen Bannister</HTML>