baldwin console

[Nancy McMillan]

----- Original Message -----
From: Leslie W Bartlett <lesbart@juno.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 3:39 PM
Subject: baldwin console


> List:
>
> I went to tune a Baldwin console today and to fix some "clicky" keys.
> They clicked only on heavy blows.  I  could see nothing that caused the
> click.  Finally, I removed a front-rail punching (about.025), and the
> clicking stopped.  It messed up some other stuff, and I had to return
> some thinner punchings to several keys.   My thinking was that somehow
> the jack wasn't getting out far enough from the hammer butt.   Whatever
> the cause, I'd like to know what more experienced people think.
>
Hi Les,

I bet this piano has the dreaded corfam on the hammer butts.  This materials
gets quite hard and can make a clicking sound if jack escapement is not
adequate, i.e. hammer rebounding and hard butt corfam clicking on top of
jack.

Good luck.

Doug Mahard, Associate