<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>HTML Message</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <STYLE>P { MARGIN: 0px } </STYLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2963" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="BORDER-TOP-STYLE: none; BORDER-RIGHT-STYLE: none; BORDER-LEFT-STYLE: none; BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: none" bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial><STRONG>Tape is catching on the bracket holding the regulating rail.  Happened to me once. Your clue; </STRONG><FONT size=3>w<FONT color=#ff0000><STRONG>(h)</STRONG></FONT>ippen.</FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>AF</FONT></DIV></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr 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=tune4u@earthlink.net href="mailto:tune4u@earthlink.net">Alan R. Barnard</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, October 14, 2006 7:05 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Puzzler With a DUH Factor</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <P>Baldwin studio piano. E4 hanging up, not resetting. Problem is NOT with the keystick or capstan, not tight centers, not jack spring, not foreign object, not hammer hitting neighbor. Problem is in the w(h)ippen assembly and a giveaway clue has been included in this description. What, oh what, pray tell, was the problem?</P> <P> </P> <P>By the way, I'd forgotten my Trusty Tunelab at home so had to tune this piano aurally (another reason to learn this skill and, erg, there were false beats all over the piano). Anyway, it was in a chapel at Fort Wood and a lady was vacuuming between the pews with a very quiet "backpack" type machine. But I was having a devil of a time tuning A4 to the fork and A3 to A4 ... until I realized that I was trying to tune them all to the vacuum cleaner which was hummmmmming along in the key of A.</P> <P><BR>Alan Barnard<BR>Salem, MO<BR>Joshua 24:15<BR><BR><BR></P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>