Susan, Did this sound happen when you jiggled the piano somehow? If not, did something you did trigger it or was it some random noise? Chris On Mar 7, 2006, at 12:58 PM, Susan Kline wrote: > From yesterday ... > > I put in a long service day on a neglected and much-played > Mason & Hamlin BB, about ten years old. When I first started > pulling the action out, I heard a soft repeated Eb7, sort of > like a very loose bobbling hammer, but not quite. It got > softer and faster till the sound disappeared, like when a > ping pong ball is bouncing, and then coming to rest. > > I said, "oops", and wondered if some action trouble had > a hammer doing a dance in the high treble -- but the > hammer was down, just like the others. "Go figure", > I said to myself, and carried on. > > A couple of quiet hours later, with the keys on a little > folding cart six feet from the piano, and the action reversed > (hammers out) on the bare keybed to get teflon on the > knuckles -- there was the same sound again. Eb7. Nothing was > near the Eb7 string. > > I never have heard that sound from a piano before, let alone with > no action and keys involved. > > What was it? > > (P.S. I figured it out ...) > > _______________________________________________ > caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > Christopher D. Purdy R.P.T. School of Music, Ohio University Rm. 311, Robt. Glidden Hall Athens, OH 45701 Office (740) 593-1656 Cell (740) 590-3842 fax (740) 593-1429 http://www.ohiou.edu/music -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 1595 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20060307/3356c6a9/attachment.bin
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