CD4049BE is buffered. CD4049UBE is unbuffered. Someday, if you want a real head scratcher, take a look at the U8 connections and compare to pinout of 4049. Redraw internals to match the pinout and you will see they are using a FET transistor as their mixer. As to why they didn't just use an off the shelf FET transistor to do this - we will never know.
Only a few manufacturers made the buffered version and nobody makes the buffered version any longer.
Note that the old "A" revision parts didn't have this issue. The buffering added by the "B" revision caused the issue which forced manufacturers to remove the buffering on the outputs of these. If I remember right - only GE/RCA (now TI) and Motorola came out with the buffered parts at first. Designs had issues (especially oscillators) and GE & Moto quickly came out with an unbuffered version. GE quickly stopped making the buffered version, Moto continued to sell two versions: 4049UB and 4049B. ... or was that vice-versa where Moto stopped buffered parts and GE sold both? Those that started selling the B series later (e.g. Fairchild, ST) completely skipped over the buffered version.
As Quench mentioned - did you check C8? And did you check your sustain circuit to make sure the gate input to the mixer isn't dead (pin 3 of U8)?