Today's Puzzler

[David Ilvedson]

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I've always called it the key strip (above the keys) and the key slip (=
in front of the keys)

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, California




Original message
From: "John Fortiner" 
To: "Mark Potter" , Pianotech 
Received: 10/10/2005 9:40:37 PM
Subject: RE: Today's Puzzler


Piano Parts and Their Functions by Merle H Mason ( second printing )  P=
age 4
#14 Name board strip: upstop rail (Wurlitzer); name rail (Kohler and Ca=
mpbell).
 
(My note:  "Thump rail" is NOT found. ;<)   ) 
 
All this fwiw.
 
John Fortiner
Billings, MT




From: Mark Potter [mailto:bases-loaded76@sbcglobal.net] 
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 9:21 PM
To: Pianotech
Subject: Re: Today's Puzzler


Tom -
 
Been calling it 'thump rail' for 28 years, for no other reason than tha=
t's what my mentor called it, and it stuck (plus I kinda like the sound=
 of it, too). OK, not a good defense, but the only one I've got!  How a=
bout key upstop rail?  In most consoles, the fallboard is hinged to a s=
eparate piece of wood that sits above the keys and is screwed into the =
cheeks.  THAT'S what I call the thump rail.  What IS the proper name, a=
nd what is the sentence from the nomenclature police? ;-)
 
Mark Potter    

tom driscoll <tomtuner@comcast.net> wrote:
Nomenclature police here--What the heck is a thump rail ?
    Fall strip felt?
    Tom Driscoll
Subject: Re: Today's Puzzler


Thump rail felt loose, catching on keytop?
 
Mark Potter

Phil Bondi <phil@philbondi.com> wrote:
This is more for the benefit of the newcomers to the field..but you 
seasoned grizzled vets may chime in I suppose..

The piano was 85 miles away..one way..don't ask, but it tuned 
fine..client was happy when I was done, and away I go.

I'm not more than 5 miles away and I get a call saying that middle C is=
 
sticking and it wasn't sticking before..yea, and it didn't stick on me =

when I was tuning either..weird.

It's a console piano, and its manufacturer is insignificant..so..why di=
d 
Middle C stick after I was done tuning it?

Here is your only clue: the cause of the problem was in no way directly=
 
related to any action parts..and it's not as obvious as you think, you =

grizzled vets! I happen to catch it instantly..I got lucky.

-Phil Bondi(Fl)


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