[CAUT] puzzler solution

[Robin Blankenship]

Yes!! But, of course!!! It was just the chip tuning off the old cheek block 
thingee!!!

Heck, everybody gets one of those sometimes!!

LOL

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Susan Kline" <skline at peak.org>
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 12:46 AM
Subject: [CAUT] puzzler solution


> Okay, let's wrap this up. You've danced all around the
> right answer, almost from the first. You pointed out that
> something was dancing on the strings, you just didn't
> figure out what or which place on the strings.
>
> I pulled the action to work on it, and the noise began
> as the action moved forward. So of course I had taken
> off the nameboard and keyslip and keyblocks first. As
> usual, I laid the keyblocks on the plate behind the
> treble strings. The plate there isn't flat, near
> the round holes, so one keyblock had a sharp corner leaning
> down onto an aliquot back duplex in octave 6, resting
> on it, but not heavily. (Very close to Ed Foote's bridge pins.)
>
> The piano is one of those which shakes around when
> you jar it, where when you pull up a note standing in
> front of the high treble, you wonder how good the leg
> attachments are. So it didn't take much to get it moving,
> and that bounced the corner of the keyblock up and down
> on the back segment of the wire -- which just HAPPENED to
> be exactly on pitch with Eb7. The rhythm of the bounces
> sped up and got softer as the corner bounced down to
> a rest position again (like a ping pong ball does).
> Chris Purdy spotted that I was jiggling the piano
> very early in the puzzle, and Greg Newell had a case
> part dancing on the strings.
>
> So, you had all the ingredients of the answer. Well done,
> all.
>
> After the second occurrence, from bumping the corner,
> I wrinkled my brow a little, checked Eb7 one more time,
> then started bumping the corner of the case -- heard
> it happen several times, figured it out, plucked the
> back length where the keyblock corner had rested --
> bingo, Eb7 ...
>
> Thanks for taking part.
>
> Susan
>
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