baldwin console

[PAT A RALPH]

List,

I have a couple of Baldwin consoles in my customer base that do not want to
spent the money for the labor to replace the corfam  with buckskin.

I also have a large Baldwin console piano (servicing since 1990) that looks
to have Corfam but the hammers are still checking properly and not noisy.
It did have a problem with some substance on some of the spoons which ate
into the felt on the damper levers causing sluggish action and the dampers
not to lift off of the strings.  I scraped off the substance resulting in
plating coming off and replace the felts that were gouged beyond use and the
piano has been functioning OK since.  I just serviced it again yesterday and
all is well.  By the way, the customer is a teacher and uses the piano
several hours a day.

Ken Gerler
----- Original Message -----
From: Roger Jolly <baldyam@sk.sympatico.ca>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 10:02 PM
Subject: Re: baldwin console


> Hi Les,
>           Figure on a full days work if you are doing the butt leather and
> catcher leather for the first time.
> Rob Kiddel had a Journal artical about 2 years ago, that gives a step by
> step how to.
> I think he also has it on his web site.
> http://www.teulplanet@.net/public/atonal
> Hope this helps.
> Roger
>
>
>
> At 09:39 PM 19/11/99 -0600, you 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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