Third-string catchers

[Brian Henselman]

Oops, add hairline cracks on plastic keytops.  Add that too to the list of
top 10 ways to tell if this piano is a Baldwin.

Cheers,
Brian Henselman, RPT
Austin, TX
musicmasters@att.net


>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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