Yes!! But, of course!!! It was just the chip tuning off the old cheek block thingee!!! Heck, everybody gets one of those sometimes!! LOL ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan Kline" <skline at peak.org> To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 12:46 AM Subject: [CAUT] puzzler solution > Okay, let's wrap this up. You've danced all around the > right answer, almost from the first. You pointed out that > something was dancing on the strings, you just didn't > figure out what or which place on the strings. > > I pulled the action to work on it, and the noise began > as the action moved forward. So of course I had taken > off the nameboard and keyslip and keyblocks first. As > usual, I laid the keyblocks on the plate behind the > treble strings. The plate there isn't flat, near > the round holes, so one keyblock had a sharp corner leaning > down onto an aliquot back duplex in octave 6, resting > on it, but not heavily. (Very close to Ed Foote's bridge pins.) > > The piano is one of those which shakes around when > you jar it, where when you pull up a note standing in > front of the high treble, you wonder how good the leg > attachments are. So it didn't take much to get it moving, > and that bounced the corner of the keyblock up and down > on the back segment of the wire -- which just HAPPENED to > be exactly on pitch with Eb7. The rhythm of the bounces > sped up and got softer as the corner bounced down to > a rest position again (like a ping pong ball does). > Chris Purdy spotted that I was jiggling the piano > very early in the puzzle, and Greg Newell had a case > part dancing on the strings. > > So, you had all the ingredients of the answer. Well done, > all. > > After the second occurrence, from bumping the corner, > I wrinkled my brow a little, checked Eb7 one more time, > then started bumping the corner of the case -- heard > it happen several times, figured it out, plucked the > back length where the keyblock corner had rested -- > bingo, Eb7 ... > > Thanks for taking part. > > Susan > > _______________________________________________ > caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.2.0/276 - Release Date: 3/7/2006 > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.2.0/276 - Release Date: 3/7/2006
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