[CAUT] Puzzler

[Greg Newell]

Short or broken lid prop dancing on the string?


At 12:58 PM 3/7/2006, you 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 ...)
>
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Greg Newell
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