Loose Ribs

[Clark Sprague]

I verified that the ribs were loose when I epoxy repaired the Bass bridge 
split.  The noise is definitely coming from the ribs at the bass end, bottom 
corner.  And they did buzz, or rumble, as Barbara said, at the low end of 
the scale.  They only took up the "harmonic" buzzing at C#5, and D5. Clark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 12:38 PM
Subject: Re: Loose Ribs


>
>> No offence was intended.  The few times I've run into loose ribs that 
>> were actually making noise, it was more of a rumble.
>>
>> br
>
> None taken. I was just giving Clark benefit of the doubt that he had 
> actually verified the source of the noise instead of guessing it was the 
> ribs because they are visibly loose. If he guessed, he shouldn't have 
> stated the guess as fact, but rather done the work and chased down the 
> real source - which may still be the ribs - or not.
> So which is it?
> Ron N