Riddle for the Weekend

[Jim]

This sounds like a riddle we need Les to ring in on.

I will take a stab at it because you said it took time for the glue to
dry.  Was it a drop of dried glue on the side of a damper felt?

My first tho't was that it was a loose round nut on the keystop rail,
but that would not require glue to dry.

Jim Coleman, Sr.


On Wed, 29 Jan 1997, Avery Todd wrote:

> Ed,
>
>    I can't believe no one tried on your riddle. I guess most were like me.
> Stumped!
>
> Avery
>
> >      The artist tells me that she hears a metallic noise, on release, but
> >only with the middle Bb chord,  both hands, and only at piano level or
> >softer.  It only does it when the pedal is also being released as her hands
> >are coming off the keys.
> >
> >    I listen, I hear.  It sounds like a metallic overtone from a back string.
> > It only does it at the end of a particular passage.
> >
> >The piano is a Steinway M, #261261
> >
> >      When I finally found the problem, it was nothing to do with the
> >strings, plate,case, or wheels,  it was not to be found in any of the keys,
> >whippens, hammer shanks, damper underlevers action rails, sostenuto or
> >keyframe. It was not some exterior object rattling along with the piano.  I
> >had had my hand on the offending item twice during the investigation, and
> >then only by chance did it occur to me what it was.
> >    the repair took  twenty seconds to effect, and 20 minutes to dry.
> >
> >Guesses??????
> >
> >( I only posted this because several replies following the last riddle
> >suggested an interest,   I think this is kinda an easy one compared to the
> >spring-tail bending)
> >
> >Regards to all
> >Ed Foote
>
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