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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><STRONG>Was there a solution to this
puzzler?</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><STRONG>AF</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=tune4u@earthlink.net href="">Alan R. Barnard</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="">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>
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<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>
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<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
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