Mystery #3

[Tom Myler]

PDtek@aol.com wrote:

> List;
> This one may be too easy but I'll give it a shot anyway. When I was
> first
> starting in this business I was servicing an old grand where the owner
> was
> complaining of sluggish keys.When she sat down and played, I could see
> that
> several keys were extremely slow coming back (her fingers were not
> resting on
> the keys). When I sat down and played these same keys, they were
> completely
> void of any friction whatsoever. I would play them slow, fast, easy,
> hard,
> sustain on, sustain off, no friction. The keys were not touching the
> slip and
> no keys were touching each other. She sat down, started playing again
> and
> there were the sluggish keys again. It drove me nuts for about an hour
> until
> I located and repaired the problem. What was it?
>
> Dave Bunch


She was playing with the soft pedal depressed, the action was
over-traveling, some keys were rubbing against the (next highest)
underlevers.


Mystery:  How many angels can fit on the head of a tuning pin?


Tom