<html> <body> <pre>>I tuned a Wurlitzer spinet which seemed just fine until I got into the = >ass section. If I played a note by itself, no problem, but if I played = >ctaves going down the first 6 notes or so, I heard this weird metallic = >ing on impact. It sounds like when a damper block at the bass-tenor = >reak is rubbing the crossing string. My immediate thought is that the block is separating from the back causing the bottoms of the damper levers to hit the strings. A sign to look for is that this also has caused the damper to be lifting late, if it was timed right in the first place. My second thought was a cracked/split bass bridge pin line but that would have been more obvious. Wurlitzers are notorious for coming apart at the seams. Last year the bass side of the case was loose enough to cause bass damper misalignment but not loose enough to immediately notice, the back had separated too, top and bottom. <x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep> Regards, Jon Page, piano technician Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. <a href="mailto:jonpage@comcast.net" eudora="autourl">mailto:jonpage@comcast.net </a>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</body> </html>