Piano is making strange sound

Corgicrazed · Post by **Corgicrazed** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 6:45 pm

Our piano is very very old.... I think it's almost 100 years old or something like that.

When I play it it's been making a sort of buzzing sound..

Is this from dust on the strings or something?

It's driving me absolutely nuts! Please Help!

MTGuru · Post by **MTGuru** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 7:18 pm

There's a hive of angry bees inside. Killer bees. Run for your life!

JackCampin · Post by **JackCampin** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 7:44 pm

The damper felts are buggered. Get them replaced.

s1m0n · Post by **s1m0n** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 10:53 pm

Tuning might not hurt either.

Tim2723 · Post by **Tim2723** » Wed Jul 20, 2011 5:19 pm

Damper felts or maybe a loose or cracked bridge. Not a home fix in either case, but very common in older instruments.

kkrell · Post by **kkrell** » Wed Jul 20, 2011 6:17 pm

Tim2723 wrote:Not a home fix in either case...

Does that mean he has to ship it back?

mutepointe · Post by **mutepointe** » Wed Jul 20, 2011 7:08 pm

There are those people. A friend was considering taking our piano. They declined (bummer). They thought it might be too much trouble to take it into the local music store every so often to get it retuned. We had to explain.

Tim2723 · Post by **Tim2723** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 5:06 am

You know a sad thing? In my neck of the woods (northern NJ) there are pitifully few piano tuners left. Our one local piano shop went under a couple of years ago too. Your local piano shop is were you'd take an instrument for bigger repairs (OK, they'd come and get it

), so in a manner of speaking you'd ship it back, since you might well have bought it there years before.

Is the piano, I mean an actual acoustic piano, a dinosaur? When I was a kid every home, at least the more affluent ones, had a piano. Nearly every classroom in the grammar school had one and the teachers for kindergarten through at least fifth grade played for the students every day. That kept the tuners and repair shops going very well. But that's all gone now.

Anyanka · Post by **Anyanka** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 5:19 am

A few of the keys on my piano are accompanied by a metallic buzz, too. I suspect it's a tiny loose part somewhere that resonates with that particular frequency. Have just made an appointment with the piano tuner, as it's at least three years since I've had it done...

Corgicrazed · Post by **Corgicrazed** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 5:13 pm

It's a Henry & S. G. Hindeman, New York, piano. Can't find that maker anywhere on the net...

We've had it as long as I can remember... We got it from some friends.

As for the size, it's gigantic, and bigger then my teacher's piano. lol.

And it is an actual acoustic piano.

It's somewhat embarrassing but, I don't even remember us getting it tuned...lol, that's probaly what it is.

James_Alto · Post by **James_Alto** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 5:25 pm

Never owned an instrument that couldn't be self-tuned.

Another reason to hate pianos

mutepointe · Post by **mutepointe** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 5:35 pm

With the improvements in electronic keyboards, I have to admit, we're only using the acoustic piano for Christmas decorations and photos. It's a mantle that is out of tune. Hurts my ears to hear it played. To get it re-tuned which would only last a little while, I could buy a new instrument. Maybe rich people with quality instruments will keep acoustic pianos going, more moderate people, not so much. It's sad.

I had a humongous upright piano as a child that is still at my parent's house. I have never seen a piano as big. There was room on each side of the keyboard to place a drink and an ashtray. It also had a damper lever on the side of the keyboard.

Corgicrazed · Post by **Corgicrazed** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 5:37 pm

James_Alto wrote:Never owned an instrument that couldn't be self-tuned.

Another reason to hate pianos

*sniff*

JK.

Corgicrazed · Post by **Corgicrazed** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 5:44 pm

mutepointe wrote:With the improvements in electronic keyboards, I have to admit, we're only using the acoustic piano for Christmas decorations and photos. It's a mantle that is out of tune. Hurts my ears to hear it played. To get it re-tuned which would only last a little while, I could buy a new instrument. Maybe rich people with quality instruments will keep acoustic pianos going, more moderate people, not so much. It's sad.

I had a humongous upright piano as a child that is still at my parent's house. I have never seen a piano as big. There was room on each side of the keyboard to place a drink and an ashtray. It also had a damper lever on the side of the keyboard.

OMG that is funny! We also use it as a mantle! We have most of our photo collection and family albums on it, not to mention a bunch of old statuettes.

The keyboard on ours also has to large spaces on both sides of the keyboard.
My brother is always putting the TV remote on it, which then usually gets the piano closed on it. It's a miracle the remote's still in one piece!

Tim2723 · Post by **Tim2723** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 4:07 pm

Yeah, the piano as a mantle for the display of things more important.

Well, at least you guys still give them a place in your homes.

Are you sure it's not all the stuff on the piano making the rattle? Seriously, I called the refrigerator repairman to fix a rattle in my fridge and it turned out to be all the junk I had piled on the top. Seriously.

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