World first for self induced Rhodes malfunctions?

[kevinplaystheblues]

Thought the following might give some of you a laugh - I'd be pleased to hear if anyone else had created this situation before, but I suspect it might be a world first!

I've been servicing up my MK1, replacing grommets and springs, and looking at the other key variables.

Starting to put it back together tonight, I am hearing a strange buzz on (of all keys!) my middle C. It sounds more electrical than vibrational, but it's on the borderline - thing is, I haven't really touched the pickups - mostly just a reseating of tines and tonebars at this stage...then I take a closer look...



With the flashlight showing it up, it's pretty obvious, but this ultrafine piece of steel wool I used to buff up some corrosion on the tine obviously got caught in the tuning spring, with some of the fibre then sucked onto the pickup magnetically!

This was resulting in a short to ground (I think?) as the vibrated over the point where the two stands of steel wool touched.

What a ridiculous self induced issue to encounter - thankfully one that didn't take too long to diagnose at least.