<table class="messageheader" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td class="label" nowrap="nowrap">From:</td><td>"Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman@cox.net></td></tr> <tr><td class="label" nowrap="nowrap">To:</td><td>"Pianotech" <Pianotech@ptg.org>, caut@ptg.org</td></tr> <tr><td class="label" nowrap="nowrap">Date:</td><td> Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:03:38 -0600</td></tr> <tr><td class="label" nowrap="nowrap">Subject:</td><td> mystery solved</td></tr> </tbody></table>  <div class="messageinfo separator"> <div>Plain Text Attachment [ <a href="ShowLetter?box=Inbox&MsgId=8102_8846089_29483_1452_86373_0_20650_126803_1339734366&bodyPart=3.12.1&YY=8800&y5beta=yes&y5beta=yes&order=up&sort=date&pos=0&VScan=1&Idx=">Scan and Save to Computer</a> ] </div> </div> <pre><tt> Earlier this year, I posted about a Baldwin K in a high school choir room that suddenly dropped in pitch through a very specific part of the scale. At the time, I didn't see any reason for it, and assumed someone on the premises "had hammer, will commit". I saw the piano again this week, and the problem had progressed enough to be obvious even to me. The treble counter bearing bars in this piano are made of brass angle, which I hadn't realized. I'd assumed they were solid, as would seem to me to be reasonable and rational. But no. As the poor quality cell phone photo attached shows, one of them has splayed out and collapsed, drastically dropping the pitch in that specific area over time as it happened. I owe the imagined perpetrator with the nonexistent tuning hammer an apology. Be careful out there. Nothing is safe. Ron N - so how do you fix it? </tt></pre> Noah Haverkamp Know-a Piano http://www.knowapiano.com 347-308-0094 Fax: 718-701-2071