Puzzler With a DUH Factor

[Alan R. Barnard]

You, Sir, are in the right neighborhood with guess number two, guess one is wrong, guess three is possible but I think she was only trying to sabotage the tuning. So we need to pin this down: what is the DUH factor? (It has nothing to do with regulation/position of the bridal wire.)

Alan Barnard
Salem, MO
Joshua 24:15






Original message
From: WilsonianJ at aol.com
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Received: 10/14/2006 9:23:42 AM
Subject: Re: Puzzler With a DUH Factor


- Bridal strap wire hanging up on it's neighbor?
- Bridal strap too tight?
- Lady with vaccuum backpack had it in for you and sabotaged the note?


In a message dated 10/14/06 11:05:55 AM, tune4u at earthlink.net writes:




Baldwin studio piano. E4 hanging up, not resetting. Problem is NOT with the keystick or capstan, not tight centers, not jack spring, not foreign object, not hammer hitting neighbor. Problem is in the w(h)ippen assembly and a giveaway clue has been included in this description. What, oh what, pray tell, was the problem?
 
By the way, I'd forgotten my Trusty Tunelab at home so had to tune this piano aurally (another reason to learn this skill and, erg, there were false beats all over the piano). Anyway, it was in a chapel at Fort Wood and a lady was vacuuming between the pews with a very quiet "backpack" type machine. But I was having a devil of a time tuning A4 to the fork and A3 to A4 ... until I realized that I was trying to tune them all to the vacuum cleaner which was hummmmmming along in the key of A.

Alan Barnard
Salem, MO
Joshua 24:15
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