baldwin console

[Leslie W Bartlett]

Well, it LOOKS like leather.........  light brown stuff.  What, then are
my options?  Do I have to re-leather the hammer-butts?  I've never done
anything like that. WHAT< ME LEARN SOMETH?ING
NEW???????????????????????????  I'm not at all sure this guy would want
to pay lots of dollars for a job like that. He's had it upstairs in a
loft for about 8 years, hotter than ****, and dry as a bone. Tuning pins
quite loose.  He says he's an engineer...............  Not very
engineer-like to leave a piano in an environment like that. I did about a
50-cent pitch raise, told him to put a couple bowls of water near the
piano on the floor, which "might" help, though it could play havoc with
the miserable tuning.  
les b

On Fri, 19 Nov 1999 18:37:50 -0500 "Nancy McMillan" <nlm@csu.cted.net>
writes:
>
>----- 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
>

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