was it a hardened damper felt? somewhere?... Or a loose electrical outlet plug screw in a nearby wall ( I have found that) Paul T Williams RPT pno2nr at whidbey.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan Kline" <skline at peak.org> To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 9:58 AM Subject: [CAUT] Puzzler > 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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