Baldwin AccuJangle

[Farrell]

"....but I've not heard a single dealer of pianos with tuned rear duplexes say a word about tuning them."

Silly man. A "tuned" rear duplex never needs tuning! That's why they are precision-set at the factory!

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Nossaman" <RNossaman@cox.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 5:49 PM
Subject: Re: Baldwin AccuJangle


> 
> > > This tech spoke in a rather dismissive/disdainful manner of the Baldwin
> >system. The tech's orientation at least was not unlike that which I have
> >read on this list about tuned rear duplex scales (like S&S, Boston, Kawai,
> >and a hundred others).
> >
> >Ah, the piano industry is a wonderful place. No good deed will go unpunished
> >and any attempt toward progress will be greeted with contempt and derision.
> >
> >Del
> 
> 
> Thomas Edison said something to the effect that it takes forty years to put 
> a good idea over on the public, and even one that can be shown to be 
> compellingly necessary and desirable will take at least ten. He was selling 
> incandescent lighting at the time and meeting some - uh - resistance.. 
> Something as simple, functional, and elegant as vertical hitch pins will 
> take at least another fifty years for even partial acceptance, and much 
> longer to be understood. If ever.
> 
> I always found it interesting that all the Baldwin dealers I've talked to 
> here pointed out that those pins were used to readjust downbearing as the 
> piano got older and the soundboard "settled", but I've not heard a single 
> dealer of pianos with tuned rear duplexes say a word about tuning them.
> 
> I have no idea what that means, but it strikes me as odd.
> 
> Ron N
> 
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