New, Improved Baldwins

[Jon Page]

I've been tending to a 25 year old Baldwin L since it was fairly new.

The keyframe would warp every season. It didn't watter which season I 
seated the frame.
It always change with the next season change.  I finally felted the bottom 
of the keyframe
(front & back rails and the glides) with thin bushing cloth so it would not 
knock.

Still, in the summers, the cheek blocks bind and the action stays shifted 
over, we
have to keep the blocks slightly loose come summertime.

Jon Page

At 12:04 PM 01/25/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>I was called out to see a Baldwin R less than 2 years old. The piano was
>unplayable. The action was in need of thorough regulation, but the _big_
>problem was that the front rail was bowed up, decreasing the key dip by
>unworkable amounts. The front rail has adjustable studs in the keybed, but
>the front rail was flying way above the studs, making for a rather
>interesting feel while playing. I must admit I wasn't sure what to do; if I
>raise the studs to bed the front rail, and adjust the height of the keys and
>the front rail punchings to get correct key dip, won't I just be asking for
>problems if the front rail decides to change shape again come the high
>humidity of summer?
>
>Any experience out there that could help in this situation?
>
>Kent Swafford
>
>
>on 1/25/01 6:59 AM, Pianofxrguy@AOL.COM at Pianofxrguy@AOL.COM wrote:
>
> > In a message dated 01/23/2001 11:36:15 AM US Eastern Standard Time,
> > purdy@oak.cats.ohiou.edu writes:
> >
> >
> >> .  They were fine when they got here but over the Christmas break the
> >> regulation went completely out the window
> >
> > I have a couple of these grands at a small college in Mishawaka, Ind. 
> and had
> > the same thing happen. There is another piano in the same room as one of
> > them, so I couldn't blame the lack of humidity control alone. Baldwin Piano
> > Tech. Serv. did approve a small sum for re-regulating the entire 
> action, so I
> > assume that it has happened elsewhere. I haven't been able to determine if
> > the problem is materials or what.
> > John Stroup

Jon Page,   piano technician
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass.
mailto:jonpage@mediaone.net
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