[CAUT] puzzler

[David Ilvedson]

This was a new sound for me...I haven't heard a papery noise like this before...

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, California



----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Ric Brekne" <ricbrek@broadpark.no>
To: caut <caut@ptg.org>
Received: 1/4/2006 12:01:00 PM
Subject: [CAUT] puzzler


>Hi David

>Cute puzzle to be sure.  You gotta wonder about the cloth being glued on 
>and not be allowed to dry.  Musta been a trainee at the factory or 
>somthing :)  Still.... high class factory.  Never ceases to amaze me all 
>the little things that can go wrong... even in a well made instrument.

>sts..ok bout the prize :)  I didnt really hit it exactly on the head, 
>Joe was just behind me, and besides... its the first puzzler of the 
>year. That carries an award in itself :)

>Ok... whose up next ?

>Cheers
>RicB

>David Ilvedson wrote:

>Whenever someone else does the puzzler, I say the same thing....when we 
>diagnose something it's never instantaneous but trial and 
>error....search, moving things etc. something you can't do with the 
>puzzler...but, that being said, I think you've got it.    I removed the 
>pedals brought down the sustain pedal lever (held up by a thin leather 
>piece, attached to the tray with a screw) and found the pitman/pushrod's 
>(haven't heard that one before) cloth on each end was off center and 
>flapping with loose glue underneath.   I suspect the cloth was glued on 
>and immediately put in the piano still wet.   A few pedal movements 
>mis-aligned the cloth....I removed them and cleaned off dried glue, 
>applied glue and let dry while I worked on their other grand.   

>Sorry, no prize.   Spent too much this Christmas...;-]

>David Ilvedson, RPT
>Pacifica, California
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