Another interesting guess, but not a split action rail, either. The piano is an S&S B, about twenty years old, but I don't think those specifics may not be much help. Alan E. -----Original Message----- From: Ed Sutton <ed440 at mindspring.com> To: caut <caut at ptg.org> Sent: Fri, Oct 29, 2010 10:54 am Subject: Re: [CAUT] Friday puzzler: Won't play on hard blow O.K. Maybe it is a split action rail. To be fair, you should let us examine the piano, or at least specify what piano it is. ES ----- Original Message ----- From: reggaepass at aol.com To: caut at ptg.org Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 5:47 PM Subject: Re: [CAUT] Friday puzzler: Won't play on hard blow This is more fun than I thought it would be. I've posted this puzzler on both lists and the two groups are at about the same point (if you remove Ed Sutton's formidable contributions from the mix, anyway). To review for one and all, the instrument in question is a mainstream grand piano of relatively recent vintage. The answer is neither of the first two things that came to the minds of so many of us, cheating jack and too-close back check (sounds like a country music duo, don't it?). Nor is it a broken keystick or any of Ed Sutton's deeper speculations (on the CAUT list) about flexing balance rails and broken keybeds (man, Ed, you have seen some pretty interesting stuff!). Also, it is not Catastrophic Action Failure--remember, it is not a repeated note thing--or a foreign object. Time for more information: There are two problem notes, one in the bass and one in the lower treble. The worse one is in the bass, probably because of the greater mass of the hammer (compared to the other one). When these notes won't play on a hard blow, one of their neighboring hammers moves slightly. Going kayaking--back later, Alan E. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20101029/9fee0206/attachment.htm>
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