>Brian, sounds like you haven't tuned a Steinway upright yet. >Jeff > >Jeff Tanner, Piano Technician > Ouch Jeff. Do the terms "marshmellow-zone" or vertigris ring a bell? Flagpoles are for flags, not tuning pins. Mutton tallow is for, well, just about anything other than nickle-silver/brass center pins! Teflon is for frying pans. Compression ridges make a great place on the soundboard to strike a match when the power fails. Hey, I've just thought of a new "riddle" game. Each day some one should post up a list of the most common ailments for a specific "mystery" brand or model piano. (Try to make it funny like the 10 best things about Samick list, but points will be taken off for inaccuracies, so make the list credible). Then we could each take a shot at identifying the piano, or better yet, depending on the brand, just shoot the piano. BTW I forgot to add sluggish action centers requiring Baldwin's famous methanol and water solution, which when applied to corfam actions, guarantees petrified corfam in only a few short minutes! (It seems ironic that Baldwin would invent the recipe that works wonders on tight action centers, but then it can't be used on Baldwin actions because of the corfam.) Huh? I tuned one of these 1970's Baldwin corfam action spinets yesterday and ran out of a whole bottle of protek! I wonder if Protek and Baldwin ever had some collusion conspiracy going on here? Again, I wouldn't recommend roughing the corfam with a checking file. I wouldn't want to hurt the file. Cheers, Brian Henselman, RPT Austin, TX musicmasters@att.net >Roughing up a rock sounds more like it. Replace the corfam. >> >>I've got one of these 1970's Hamilton wonders to behold (tongue firmly >>pressed into cheek). Is it me or is Baldwin one of the most consistantly >>goofed up brand of pianos that we service? Bad glue (hammer heads are >>always loose on Baldwins, and today's Hamilton had a soundboard that had >>pulled loose from the back inner rim (lower rh corner), again more bad glue. >>Bad bad corfam. Rubber grommets dissentegrating on Acronsics, and lets not >>forget jumpy, poppy tuning pins. >> >>Did I leave any of the typical Baldwin gripes out? >> >>Oh well, back to work I go. >> >>-Brian Henselman,RPT >>Austin, TX >>musicmasters@att.net
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