Third-string catchers

[Jeff Tanner]

>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
>


I used to think that when it comes to trying to fix what ain't broke,
Baldwin took the cake.  I heard Kent Webb say not too long ago, that there
are some 250 design changes in the works at Baldwin all the time.

But now Steinway has gotten into the game.  They've redesigned the action
of the uprights and made servicing them more of a problem.  I rather wish
they'd worked on tunability instead.  Oh well.  At least I don't have but 5
of them here -- and the tech before me was smart enough to place them where
they don't get much use.  Where I was last, there were about 40 of them.  I
will say one thing for them, though.  They're about as rugged as that
corfam!

Jeff