For at least .. 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 wasnāt tied to any specific notes, more like just caused by pedaling and half pedaling. I donāt think other people noticed it while I was playing, but you can kind of hear it in some of the recordings Iāve made lately. I tried not to let it drive me crazy, but Iāve 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 didnāt 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 actionā¦
Hereās the back action, you canāt see the screws in question yetā¦
Here heās 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 worksā¦but I canāt remember! š
Another shot of the back actionā¦
Anyway, it was slightly less than two hours. And nowā¦. No clicking!!!
A lovely way to start the new year š
