Loose Ribs

[Farrell]

Wow! That's a piano? Sounds more like the soundtrack to a Twilight Zone 
episode.....

Spooky!

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Clark Sprague" <CSPRAGUE4 at woh.rr.com>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 11:38 PM
Subject: Loose Ribs


> Hi, all.  I was trying to tune a Shoninger spinet tonight (what a horrible
> thing), and when I got to C#5, and to a lesser extent, D5, I heard the
> weirdest sounds.  I knew that the thing had loose ribs, and they were
> buzzing most of the way up the piano, but at that point, they began to 
> buzz
> "harmonically".  I have never heard this before.
>    I have attached a recording made on my Dell pocket PC, on which I run
> Tunelab.  It is a .wav file, and can be opened with Windows Media Player. 
> I
> turned the volume up, and it comes through clearly.  And it is different 
> the
> second time I hit C#, from the first time.
>    Anyone heard this kind of vibe coming from loose ribs before?
> Clark A. Sprague, RPT
>