Puzzler With a DUH Factor

WilsonianJ at aol.com WilsonianJ at aol.com
Sat Oct 14 12:23:42 MDT 2006


- Bridal strap wire hanging up on it's neighbor?
- Bridal strap too tight?
- Lady with vaccuum backpack had it in for you and sabotaged the note?

 
In a message dated 10/14/06 11:05:55 AM, tune4u at earthlink.net writes:


> 
> Baldwin studio piano. E4 hanging up, not resetting. Problem is NOT with the 
> keystick or capstan, not tight centers, not jack spring, not foreign object, 
> not hammer hitting neighbor. Problem is in the w(h)ippen assembly and a 
> giveaway clue has been included in this description. What, oh what, pray tell, was 
> the problem?
>   
>  By the way, I'd forgotten my Trusty Tunelab at home so had to tune this 
> piano aurally (another reason to learn this skill and, erg, there were false 
> beats all over the piano). Anyway, it was in a chapel at Fort Wood and a lady 
> was vacuuming between the pews with a very quiet "backpack" type machine. But I 
> was having a devil of a time tuning A4 to the fork and A3 to A4 ... until I 
> realized that I was trying to tune them all to the vacuum cleaner which 
> was hummmmmming along in the key of A.
> 
> Alan Barnard
> Salem, MO
> Joshua 24:15
> 
> 
> 
> 


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