Sounds like a marble to me. Sid >At 02:05 PM 3/7/2006 -0500, you wrote: > >>Susan, >> >>Did this sound happen when you jiggled the piano somehow? If not, >>did something you did trigger it or was it some random noise? >> >>Chris >> > >Sounds like you're on the right track. I wondered if somebody would nail it >right away. The second occurrence happened as I bumped the right >cheek of the piano >while walking past it, the first as I was pulling out the action. > >Susan > > > > >>On Mar 7, 2006, at 12:58 PM, Susan Kline wrote: >> >>>From yesterday ... >>> >>>I put in a long service day on a neglected and much-played >>>Mason & Hamlin BB, about ten years old. When I first started >>>pulling the action out, I heard a soft repeated Eb7, sort of >>>like a very loose bobbling hammer, but not quite. It got >>>softer and faster till the sound disappeared, like when a >>>ping pong ball is bouncing, and then coming to rest. >>> >>>I said, "oops", and wondered if some action trouble had >>>a hammer doing a dance in the high treble -- but the >>>hammer was down, just like the others. "Go figure", >>>I said to myself, and carried on. >>> >>>A couple of quiet hours later, with the keys on a little >>>folding cart six feet from the piano, and the action reversed >>>(hammers out) on the bare keybed to get teflon on the >>>knuckles -- there was the same sound again. Eb7. Nothing was >>>near the Eb7 string. >>> >>>I never have heard that sound from a piano before, let alone with >>>no action and keys involved. >>> >>>What was it? >>> >>>(P.S. I figured it out ...) >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>caut list info: >>><https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives>http://www.ptg.org/mailman/listinfo/<https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives>caut >>> >>Christopher D. Purdy R.P.T. >>School of Music, Ohio University >>Rm. 311, Robt. Glidden Hall >>Athens, OH 45701 >>Office (740) 593-1656 >>Cell (740) 590-3842 >>fax (740) 593-1429 >><http://www.ohiou.edu/music>http://www.ohiou.edu<http://www.ohiou.edu/music>/music >> >><br> >><div>_______________________________________________</div> >><div>caut list info: <a >>href="https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives" >>EUDORA=AUTOURL>https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives</a></div> >></blockquote></x-html> >> > >_______________________________________________ >caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives -- Sid Blum sid at sover.net
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