Puzzler

[Ron Nossaman]

>     Hi Guys & Gals:
>     Here's a puzzler I really don't have the answer for.
>     
>     Winter spinet, 40 years old, good shape, tuned up and plays 
> well except for one thing. 
>     The first bass octave dampers won't lift away from the strings 
> either with the keys or damper pedal.  Also many hammers are blocking in 
> this area.  I pulled the action out thinking a damper rod problem, but 
> no.  

Concept alert! Damper lifter rod affecting letoff? Blue screen 
of death. Reboot. Reinstall operating system.


>All the dampers are in line and lift evenly out of the piano.  

Without strings as a reference to see where they actually do 
lift? Concept alert #2.

First  guess - split action rail. Second guess - daemonic 
possession, requiring wholesale destruction of the known 
universe. Your call.

Ron N