At 11:39 PM 9/10/98 -0400, you wrote: > > Mid 60's Wurlitzer spinet made a horrible rattling in the bass only >when I played an octave. Thats right, only when I played an upper octave >note. I thought something had dropped in the strings, but no. Here's a >clue: the hammers were sitting off the rail. Answer in a few days. > Ken Jankura > Newburg, PA > The dampers were rattling against the strings. Well, Jim Coleman, Sr. and Joe & Penny Goss guessed correctly, but what threw me at first was that the damper only rattled when the octave was played. The bottom of the action had shifted back toward the strings (bent rail prop bolts). The damper pedal did not lift the bottom of the damper levers enough to make the rattle, but the wip spoons did, and only the key exactly one octave above the vibrating string had the bottom of its damper lever in the right (wrong) place. Did they design it that way? :-) Seemed interesting enough to me. Ken
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