Baldwin 'D', #137---, or Have I been sleeping??

[Delwin D Fandrich]

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Subject: re: Baldwin 'D', #137---, or Have I been sleeping??


> Well I have noticed a thingee on this Baldwin 9er that I just can't
believe
> that I haven't noticed before or is this the only one in existence like
> this????..........The problem(?) is in the 3rd section only(from bass)
what
> is the problem(?)...the bridge is notched at aprox. a 20/25 degree angle
> toward the bass..that is to say the left string is longer than the middle
or
> right string and so on.
>  This angled notching is reflected in the aliquot thingees also as they
are
> set at the same angles. There is no corresponding angle built into the
capo
> bar and this section is problematic as to
> tuning...........................The question is: Is this an "unadvertised
> feature" on Baldwin 'D's that I have just overlooked in the past or am I
> hallucinating?..........

I can't tell whether or not you've been hallucinating--what have you been
puffing lately? The pinning/notching on the Baldwin bridge is real, however.

I don't know when they started and/or started this practice (Steinway and
several others did it as well), but it was just one more attempt to add some
sizzle to a region where some soundboard design work was really needed. Kind
of like tuning the duplexes.... So how do you tune the front duplexes?

Don't worry about them. Simply replace the bridge caps and square them to
the front termination.

Del