Greetings all,
Usually I ask questions about things that bother me but not the customers. Not this one.
The piano is a Kawai grand KG-3D from the 1980s, and the customer was obsessing about noise which didn't seem that unusual to me for a piano of this age. I isolated the noise to the keys hitting the back rail felt--no jacks making noise, nothing else I could find, no clicks or anything else. Just the return thump. Same sound in non-damper areas.
The ideal thing is to replace it, but I'm just wondering if there are any other solutions that will avoid a regulation job. Has anyone, for example, tried needling the felt? Using VS Profelt? I don't know whether the felt is totally glued down on this piano.
thanks!
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Scott Cole, RPT
rvpianotuner.com
Talent, OR
(541-601-9033
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