[CAUT] Puzzler

[Susan Kline]

At 10:58 PM 3/7/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>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?

No, the lid was up. And nothing had worked loose -- no screws
or anything like that, anyway.

Susan



>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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