baldwin console

[Clyde Hollinger]

Les,

One of your options is to do nothing at all.  It's not a good one, I know,
but I have clients who choose this option because they are on a tight budget,
or it doesn't bother them as much as it bothers me, or they just don't want
to part with the money because the piano isn't that important to them.

Clyde Hollinger

Leslie W Bartlett wrote:

> 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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