"Puzzlers"

[Farrell]

Thanks for the positive comments about puzzlers. Now that I don't feel like I will get trounced again for this post, here goes:

I thought I would repost the answer as it appeared Joe did not find it - when I checked my sent messages, I found that I have somehow sent the answer privately to  Dave Foster - I meant to send it to pianotech list. Oops. So now I need to apologize to all that I had NOT offended with the puzzler post, but that I left hanging with no answer!!!

Here is the private post I sent to Dave accidentally:

BINGO! 

Only in this case the damper body flies off the wippen spoon, falls back giving a kick, rebound back off the spoon and returns giving another kick, rebounds...........etc., etc. producing a definitive bobble rather than just an extra kick like a damper up-stop rail adjusted too high on a grand.

I owe you a brew also in Dallas!

I had never seen this problem before. This piano had received new hammers, damper felt, bridle straps, and sticker action cloth sometime in the recent past. No doubt this piano was "rebuilt". It also had about two-dozen strings that were so flat, you could see the bend for the V-bar in the string about 1/4" to 1/2" below the V-bar - the strings were so loose, they were sloppy.

Oh yeah - nice refinish and nice keytops. So typical.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Foster" <foster29@earthlink.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>; <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 12:36 AM
Subject: Re: Tonight's Puzzler


> It sounds maybe like very weak damper springs.  On a hard blow, the damper
> body would fly off the wippen spoon shortly, and return back giving a slight
> kick a millasecond after the end of the stroke.  That's my guess.
> 
> Dave Foster
>
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joseph Garrett" <joegarrett@earthlink.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 1:38 AM
Subject: "Puzzlers"


> I personally enjoy the "Puzzlers". Gets the juices flowing. What I don't
> like on a few of them, is that the answer never surfaces, for whatever
> reason, like I missed it?
> Best Regards,
> Joe Garrett, RPT, (Oregon)
> 
> Been There, Didn't Like It, So I'm Here To Stay! [G}
> 
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