[CAUT] Puzzler

[Susan Kline]

At 02:05 PM 3/7/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>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

Sounds like you're on the right track. I wondered if somebody would nail it
right away. The second occurrence happened as I bumped the right cheek of 
the piano
while walking past it, the first as I was pulling out the action.

Susan





>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 ...)
>>
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