Pianotech

  • 1.  Pedal Click, Vogel Grand Piano

    Posted 01-22-2018 17:23
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    Pedal click, only occurred when customer played with high heeled shoes.
    Repair was to ease the bushing and pack with Protek MLP-1

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    Ed Sutton
    ed440@me.com
    (980) 254-7413
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  • 2.  RE: Pedal Click, Vogel Grand Piano

    Posted 01-22-2018 18:21
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    "That Tuning Guy"
    Scott Kerns
    www.thattuningguy.com
    Tunic OnlyPure, TuneLab & Easy Piano Tuner user
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  • 3.  RE: Pedal Click, Vogel Grand Piano

    Posted 01-22-2018 21:14
    How long did you have to hunt for that noise? 


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    John Formsma, RPT
    New Albany MS
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  • 4.  RE: Pedal Click, Vogel Grand Piano

    Posted 01-22-2018 21:41
    About 40 minutes with several false repairs. 
    Although it creaks quite easily in the video, in the pedal box with the rod in place it only creaked when you pushed it at exactly the right angle and pressure. 
    I gave the customer ten minutes of playing to be sure she couldn't recreate it.
    Fortunately a very nice person, and the dealer paid for the call.

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    Ed Sutton
    ed440@me.com
    (980) 254-7413
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  • 5.  RE: Pedal Click, Vogel Grand Piano

    Posted 01-23-2018 07:24
    "False repairs"...I like that description and will steal it. :)

    Sounds like my day yesterday. I spent maybe 40-45 minutes tracking down noises in all pedals. It was a Young Chang PG150. Had noises in the rubber bushing for each pedal, which was super simple. But then other noises.... The sostenuto pedal had two main noises. One was inside the action cavity and it was fixed with a little Protek on the bushings for the rod. But then, the other noise took longer to find. This piano had plastic trap supports, and I thought it might be in there.  Fiddled around with that for a while, which was a pain because you must remove four screws each time to remove the support. After I was just about ready to give up and call an exorcist, I noticed the creak was coming from the leather on top of the trap lever. It contacts the large stop that is screwed in the keybed (looks like a really big capstan). After more VJ lube in that leather, all the noise was gone. I don't recall seeing leather on top of the trap like this. Felt, yes; leather, no.


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    John Formsma, RPT
    New Albany MS
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