Buzz Lightyear

[gordon stelter]

My suggestions:
     Check for a soundboard crack, or loose section of
soundboard where it is glued to rim. Order a second
replacement string.
     G

--- Alan <tune4u@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Okay, I need help with a real mystery ...
>  
> Old upright; Newly restrung; new bass bridge cap.
>  
> D2 has a loud buzzing string; sound is clearly
> coming from near the top
> of the string.
>  
> There is NO mechanical interference with this string
> from the damper or
> anything else.
>  
> String buzzes whether plucked or hammer-struck.
>  
> The companion string does NOT buzz even when tuned
> accurately in the
> unison  so it's not apparently something vibrating
> harmonically.
>  
> I have tightened the pressure bar (yes the bass has
> one in this piano)
> AND --- ta, daaaaa! I ordered a replacement sting
> and installed it, so
> it isn't a string-winding problem either!
>  
> I also moved the string slightly on the nickel-steel
> V-bar insert to
> make sure there wasn't a bad spot.
>  
> As the man said upon hearing weird sounds coming
> from his hen house: "I
> suspect poultrygeists!"
>  
> Alan R. Barnard
> Salem, MO
>  
> 
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