Had a screw loose…. (A piano thread…)
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For at least the last ... I dunno maybe 6 months, my piano has had a clicking noise when I pedal. I could hear the noise in the bass area below middle C, but it wasn’t tied to any specific notes, more like just caused by pedaling and half pedaling. I don’t think other people noticed it while I was playing, but you can kind of hear it in some of the recordings I’ve made lately. I tried not to let it drive me crazy, but I’ve really wanted to get it fixed for a long time now!
I noticed that it was worse when the indoor humidity was lower. When my tuner came in the summer, he pulled out the action and figured out that the noise was in the back action (a term I didn’t even know before then) and he said there was probably a loose screw, or maybe a few loose screws. At the time, he explained that to get to those screws, the entire back action would have to be removed. We discussed my understanding of the symptoms (esp. the timing of when it was worse) and based on that, he recommended that I wait until winter when the humidity was lowest. Then he would come and remove the back action and tighten all the screws.
That day finally came, yesterday!
He pulled out the action…
Here’s the back action, you can’t see the screws in question yet…
Here he’s pointing to the screws with his right hand. He ended up tightening every single one of these screws.
Actually, these photos are out of order, I think this was when he was explaining how the back action works…but I can’t remember!
Another shot of the back action…
Anyway, it was slightly less than two hours. And now…. No clicking!!!
A lovely way to start the new year
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Nice photo description - Glad everything went well. This is a job where many starting techs get 'lost in the weeds' when trying to get everything back together properly. Damper work can be finicky!
Clicks and noises in general in and around the piano can be difficult to find, consider yourself fortunate that the diagnosis and repair seems straightforward.
