Baldwin termination bars

[Ed Sutton]

Fred-
You might try needling the front side of the hammers, if there's anything
left to needle.
Ed Sutton
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Sturm" <fssturm@unm.edu>
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 1:45 PM
Subject: Re: Baldwin termination bars


> Dave,
> Unfortunately, that was already done. He says a previous tech had shoved
> pieces of muting felt down each unison. He has now inserted various sorts
> of wedges and whatnot in addition. Helps reduce, but doesn't eliminate the
> problem noise. I guess it _was_ "pretty bad" and is now "terribly bad." So
> the muting felt used to keep it mostly under control, but now even adding
> wedges doesn't.
> Thanks for the feedback. At least I can tell him he has some company.
> Fred
>
> --On Thursday, June 12, 2003 12:00 PM -0500 "David M. Porritt"
> <dm.porritt@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> > Fred:
> >
> > I have one customer with an SD-10 as you describe.  It too is an
> > older unit and those pieces are not individual pieces but 1 per
> > section.  Several years ago I did tighten the Allen screws that are
> > underneath because it seemed to have some strange noises though not
> > as bad nor as sudden as the ones you describe.  This piano (it
> > belongs to one of our piano faculty) needs rebuilding.  I have
> > wondered about those parts as I'm sure Baldwin no longer has them
> > available.  I think if I were faced with your colleague's problem I'd
> > just string braid off those sections.  I have done it to an SF-10
> > that was in a recording studio.  They were close mikeing it and
> > complaining about the odd noises.  When I braided those sections I
> > was an instant hero.  I'm sure that fix goes against the
> > manufacturers intent, but whatever they intended, it sounds bad.
> >
> > dave
> >
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