I was doing what started out as a 35c pitch raise today on a 1969 S&S console. Room was 71F and 15%RH. Musical, elderly owners. About in octave 5, I heard a kinda thunk noise that sounded like it came from below. Removed knee board, looked around, saw nothing amiss near as I could tell. Then noticed the crack between the pinblock and back at the far bass end. At the time, I wasn't in the habit of checking for such things prior to starting a tuning (my really bad bad) so I'm not certain whether it was there before. (Yes, I'll be checking that before EVERY tuning from here on out!)<br>
<br>Decided to press on. <br><br>Discovered that the notes I'd just tuned were very flat, and the 35c I'd been pitch raising now was more like 80c. As I completed my PR pass the top 6 or 8 notes were close and required very little overpull. The low bass was also still close, but flat.<br>
<br>Could this fairly short and narrow (about 12" x < 1/16 at widest point) separation have that dramatic an effect? The separation did not change from the time I first noticed it until I left after speaking to the owners (at least 1/2 hour.) Could the thunk noise have been something else that would cause this? I think cracked plate, but from all the reports I've read here that is more like a shotgun blast. This thunk was like dropping a 4" piece of 2x4 onto the bottom board.<br>
<br>Thanks,<br>Paul Bruesch<br>Stillwater, MN<br>