in the month of June, I purchased a Yamaha U3X piano from an authorized dealer, serial number 2,300,000, refurbished in 2012 by the parent company. Starting to use it, I immediately noticed that when I play with the practice pedal (soft pedal) engaged and simultaneously use the sustain pedal, the sound distorts, generating a sort of metallic SDEEENG that is very unpleasant to hear. I contacted the dealer to report the problem, and he sent me a tuner who confirmed the existence of the problem and, after several attempts on the soft pedal, threw up his hands and told me "it's clear it was born this way." I called the dealer back, who promised to send me another technician, and now I am waiting.
The piano sounds good without the soft pedal and, looking at it from the outside, no defect is visible; that is: the dampers rise aligned, and the soft pedal felt is new.
What do you think? Is it normal for the combined action of the soft pedal and sustain to produce this effect?
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Giusi67 wrote:
after a few muted attempts, he spread his arms and told me "it's obvious he was born this way".
Strange, if the problem is mechanical in nature, it is always solvable... you did well to request another technician.
But put that way, I wouldn't know what it could be.
It is very difficult to make a diagnosis from a distance. It could be the hammers "escaping" too close to the string. It is only a hypothesis. When the practice pedal (sordina) is engaged, the escapement levers must be adjusted so that the hammers escape approximately 3.5 from the strings. Personally, I am against the use of the practice pedal, both from a musical standpoint and "strictly mechanically."
Hi, the same thing happened to me with one of my Yamahas .... it's the damper felt being very hard, so that with the hammer percussion it hits the other strings, making them vibrate involuntarily (with the sustain pedal). I solved everything by changing the felt
