[CAUT] Puzzler

[Susan Kline]

At 06:50 PM 3/7/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>Short or broken lid prop dancing on the string?


Very, very close. It was a musical tone, as from a
string (so not a marble or a ping pong ball.) The
pitch was Eb7 (or D#7, depending on your taste.)

Only nothing was interfering with Eb7 ... there,
that's a great big huge hint ...

Very close.

Susan



>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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