Loose Ribs

[Barbara Richmond]

Thanks for the clarification, Clark.  I'm afraid that the lose ribs I've 
encountered haven't been as musical!

You know what would be cool (or maybe not), Ron Berry, would be a place on 
ptg.org to have recordings of noises and list their causes.  Maybe we 
already have a place to put recordings, I'm not up-to-date on what all is 
available. (tsk, tsk)  It would take folks being able to record out in the 
field, of course.

Barbara Richmond
near Peoria, Illinois


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Clark Sprague" <CSPRAGUE4 at woh.rr.com>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: Loose Ribs


>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
>