[CAUT] PIano Duo: S&S D and Baldwin SD-10 ?!

[Bdshull at aol.com]

Hi, Andrew,

Restring the top sections, OR

in a pinch drop the tension in the top two sections and run the string around 
the hitchpin some (lower a half turn on one pin, increase on the other) to 
re-locate the hardened wire at the front terminations.  Problem with this idea 
is that it will clean things up quite a bit, when you really should use the 
disastrous buzzing etc to sell a restringing....but you do what you gotta 
do....Hopefully the pins aren't too tight :)

BIll Shull
La Sierra University, RIverside, CA
(where there are two SD-10s)

In a message dated 1/11/2007 7:45:13 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
andrew at andersonmusic.com writes:
I've got some tuning coming up for piano days here in Laredo.  They 
want to do some duos and use the two resident concert grands 
together.  Bit of a mis-match if you ask me...  I'll encourage 
bringing another D over from another local venue but...I'll probably 
be stuck with tuning the Baldwin to the D.

Here's the rub.  The Baldwin has those proprietary front duplex 
thingamajigs and the shrieking and buzzing are just plain shrill and 
nasty.  They are all over the place angle-wise so I haven't figured 
out a rhyme or reason for their positions.  Does anyone know how to 
tame these or shall I just stuff that all full of felt for the 
concert at hand?  Wondered about trickling CA glue in around the 
thingamajigs to see if that would help but it would be a nuisance to 
clean up if I had to.  For those of you who wonder, the Baldwin was 
replaced by the D and banished to the choir room where it plays 
second fiddle to a Boston upright.  Has great stability and good tone 
for the most part except the treble.

Open to ideas, hopefully expertise.

Andrew Anderson, Artisan Piano
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