This reminds me of a funny story about a problem I had many years ago. I used to be the tech for the store that sold Grand (the brand name) pianos. When out servicing one of them for the free tuning, there was a very prominent buzz on 2 notes only in the tenor bass break. When played loudly, it TWANGED like mad. It was the kind of twang that sounded like a bearing problem. I checked everything you can think of and then some but could not find what was causing it. After a few hours, I called my cousin. The other Groot that some of you mistook for me here at the Grand Rapids Convention. We went back at a later time together to solve it. We didn't solve it. We couldn't figure the problem out for nothing. We even resorted to turning the nose bolt for a different bearing. Nothing worked. There was plenty of room on each side of the bridges so it was not buzzing there either. Finally, I called my dad who just happened to be home. He came right over. We all 3 looked and looked. Finally, my dad picked up one side of the piano and just flat out dropped it! BAM onto the floor it went. Those of you that know me, will assume which I did, that I busted out laughing my butt off when he did that. So did my cousin. My dad, he just smirked. Funny thing? The buzz went away never to return. After making sure it wasn't going to start up again dad looked at the piano and said "THERE YOU SO AND SO TAKE THAT!!! To which we all laughed some more. I wouldn't condone resorting to this obviously, yet after that much frustration, it sure was funny to watch him do that. Jer Jerry.5 _____ avast! Antivirus <http://www.avast.com> : Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 090824-0, 08/24/2009 Tested on: 8/25/2009 8:22:14 AM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090825/5fd05880/attachment-0001.htm> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 14480 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090825/5fd05880/attachment-0001.jpeg>
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