[pianotech] Puzzler ala Wurly

[Terry Farrell]

I appreciate your try. It does have the flange rail for the stickers,  
but that assembly is solid. No pencils anywhere.

Well, yeah, it's obvious once you figure it out! I found that out. ;-)

Terry Farrell

Good Golly, is my puzzler so difficult it hasn't been solved? Do we  
need to let the experts in on this??????


On Sep 11, 2009, at 8:08 PM, David Doremus wrote:

> Terry Farrell wrote:
>>> Is the hammer butt resting on the jack?(Because the hammer shanks  
>>> aren't
>>> resting on the rail as they should be--right)?
>>
>>
> Well, heck. Clearly the whippens are too high. It could be something  
> under the back of the keys but not on all of them. Could be the  
> hammer rest rail, but the shanks are high off of it. Could it have a  
> flange rail for the stickers, sitting over the capstans, that has  
> dropped down onto the back of the keys? Usually those are pinned as  
> well as screwed in, but I gueass it's possible.  Or a whole chain of  
> pencils stuck in the same place? I'm having trouble picturing the  
> whole situation and probably missing something very obvious....
>
>
> ---Dave
>
>  New Orleans