Action return spring was loose? ----- Original Message ----- From: Susan Kline To: College and University Technicians Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 3:24 PM Subject: Re: [CAUT] Puzzler 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 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 <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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.2.0/275 - Release Date: 3/6/2006 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20060307/a997e249/attachment.html
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