[CAUT] Puzzler

[Greg Newell]

Okay, okay how about the lid catch ( if that's 
the proper term). That post and ring hole pairing 
brass thingee that helps line the lid with the 
case when you close the lid. Were they rubbing when you bumped it?


At 09:48 PM 3/7/2006, you wrote:
>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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Greg Newell
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