<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2737.800" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Action return spring was loose?</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=skline@peak.org href="mailto:skline@peak.org">Susan Kline</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=caut@ptg.org href="mailto:caut@ptg.org">College and University Technicians</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, March 07, 2006 3:24 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [CAUT] Puzzler</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>At 02:05 PM 3/7/2006 -0500, you wrote:<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite">Susan, <BR><BR>Did this sound happen when you jiggled the piano somehow?  If not, did something you did trigger it or was it some random noise? <BR><BR>Chris </BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Sounds like you're on the right track. I wondered if somebody would nail it <BR>right away. The second occurrence happened as I bumped the right cheek of the piano <BR>while walking past it, the first as I was pulling out the action. <BR><BR>Susan <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite">On Mar 7, 2006, at 12:58 PM, Susan Kline wrote: <BR><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite">From yesterday ... <BR><BR>I put in a long service day on a neglected and much-played <BR>Mason & Hamlin BB, about ten years old. When I first started <BR>pulling the action out, I heard a soft repeated Eb7, sort of <BR>like a very loose bobbling hammer, but not quite. It got <BR>softer and faster till the sound disappeared, like when a <BR>ping pong ball is bouncing, and then coming to rest. <BR><BR>I said, "oops", and wondered if some action trouble had <BR>a hammer doing a dance in the high treble -- but the <BR>hammer was down, just like the others. "Go figure", <BR>I said to myself, and carried on. <BR><BR>A couple of quiet hours later, with the keys on a little <BR>folding cart six feet from the piano, and the action reversed <BR>(hammers out) on the bare keybed to get teflon on the <BR>knuckles -- there was the same sound again. Eb7. Nothing was <BR>near the Eb7 string. <BR><BR>I never have heard that sound from a piano before, let alone with <BR>no action and keys involved. <BR><BR>What was it? <BR><BR>(P.S. I figured it out ...) <BR><BR>_______________________________________________ <BR>caut list info: <A href="https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives">http</A>://www.ptg.org/mailman/listinfo/<A href="https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives">caut</A> <BR></BLOCKQUOTE><I>Christopher D. Purdy R.P.T. <BR>School of Music, Ohio University <BR>Rm. 311, Robt. Glidden Hall <BR>Athens, OH  45701 <BR>Office (740) 593-1656 <BR>Cell    (740) 590-3842 <BR>fax      (740) 593-1429 <BR></I><A href="http://www.ohiou.edu/music">http</A>://www.ohiou.edu<A href="http://www.ohiou.edu/music">/music</A> <BR><BR><br><BR><div>_______________________________________________</div><BR><div>caut list info: <a href="https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives" EUDORA=AUTOURL><A href="https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives" eudora="autourl">https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives</A></a></div><BR></blockquote></x-html> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P> <HR> <P></P>_______________________________________________<BR>caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives<BR> <P> <HR> <P></P>No virus found in this incoming message.<BR>Checked by AVG Free Edition.<BR>Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.2.0/275 - Release Date: 3/6/2006<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>