Kent Webb's address

[PAT A RALPH]

Mark,

Where are they breaking?  In St. Louis I service a lot of Gospel type
churches where they use the damper pedal improperly causing the strings to
break at the agraffe or upper bridge (depending on whether a vertical or
grand).

Baldwin did a study holding the damper pedal down and repeatedly hitting the
same string/note and broke the strings in 10 minutes!

Ken Gerler

----- Original Message -----
From: <bases-loaded@juno.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 4:50 PM
Subject: Kent Webb's address


> Does anyone have Kent's email address handy?  I have a church with a 1 yr
> old 7' Baldwin with bass strings breaking.  The retailer has replaced  4
> so far, but 3 more broke in the last month.  All break during
> performance.  The tech for the retailer now has the opinion that because
> the piano is not sitting perfectly level ( there is a discernible
> "tilt"), the bass strings are under increased tension, causing early
> demise.  This sounds corny to me, but I would like to check with Kent to
> see if there has been a problem with the scaling of the bass in this
> series of Baldwins.
>
> Thanks
>
> Mark Potter
> bases-loaded@juno.com