[CAUT] mystery solved

[Fred Sturm]

Amazing! What's the vintage?
Regards,
Fred Sturm
University of New Mexico
fssturm at unm.edu



On Dec 13, 2007, at 7:03 AM, Ron Nossaman wrote:

>
> Earlier this year, I posted about a Baldwin K in a high school choir  
> room that suddenly dropped in pitch through a very specific part of  
> the scale. At the time, I didn't see any reason for it, and assumed  
> someone on the premises "had hammer, will commit".
>
> I saw the piano again this week, and the problem had progressed  
> enough to be obvious even to me. The treble counter bearing bars in  
> this piano are made of brass angle, which I hadn't realized. I'd  
> assumed they were solid, as would seem to me to be reasonable and  
> rational. But no. As the poor quality cell phone photo attached  
> shows, one of them has splayed out and collapsed, drastically  
> dropping the pitch in that specific area over time as it happened.
> I owe the imagined perpetrator with the nonexistent tuning hammer an  
> apology.
>
> Be careful out there. Nothing is safe.
>
> Ron N
> <Baldwin K counter bearing.jpg>