Bob, I recently bought one of these curious specimens and in my instrument the tongue (that holds the plectrum) is molded into the jack body with a very thin strip which functions as the spring. This is a really stupid arrangement because if a plectrum breaks or if you trim it too short you have to replace the whole jack. Mine are all intact but I did some investigation and found that a Hubbard jack will fit just fine (with some adjustments) into the register. I think some of these instruments actually had Hubbard-type jacks in them. The Baldwin "solid body harpsichords" were built by the Cannon Guild in Boston and I think Eric Hertz type jacks might be in some of them though this is just a guess since I haven't seen any. Eric Eric Wolfley, RPT Director of Piano Services College-Conservatory of Music University of Cincinnati ________________________________ From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of itunepiano at aol.com Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 8:09 PM To: caut at ptg.org Subject: [CAUT] Baldwin Electric Harpsichord Anyone know of a source for jacks for a Baldwin Electric Harpsichord? I need 4 jacks, or at min the little lever that supports the plectrum. Thanks! Bob. ________________________________ More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail <http://o.aolcdn.com/cdn.webmail.aol.com/mailtour/aol/en-us/text.htm?nci d=aolcmp00050000000003> ! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20080109/2a052126/attachment.html
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