explanation(s), please

[Alan Barnard]

It doesn't sound typical, but is the block moving/rocking? Are there gaps between the frame and the block? 

Alan Barnard
Salem, MO

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Annie Grieshop" <annie at allthingspiano.com>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Received: 12/21/2007 9:29:59 AM
Subject: explanation(s), please


>A small Brambach grand did something yesterday that has left me bamboozled.
>I'd appreciate any information, suggestions, advice....

>When I got there, the piano was surprisingly well in tune, considering its
>overall condition.  Two trichords in the 6th octave (below the break) were
>playing chords, but the rest was pretty OK.

>I pulled one of the offending notes into tune, and almost immediately one
>string went "BANG" and dropped pitch, taking the other with it.  I pulled it
>back up -- no, it had not broken -- and then both of them did the same thing
>(big BANG, very flat).  I've had that happen after treating pins with CA
>glue, but never before, and I hadn't treated any of them at that point.  (I
>did later, but it didn't have much effect.)

>Here's the part that really confuses me:  after that happened, one string of
>a 2nd octave bichord went terribly flat on its own AND a cluster of four
>trichords just above the break in the 6th octave also spontaneously went
>horribly awry.  I had not touched any of them.........

>The plate does not appear to be cracked, and I didn't find anything else
>that looked particularly suspicious.  What am I missing here (other than the
>chance to call the trash collectors and get the thing hauled away)?  Thanks!

>Annie Grieshop



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