Are you trying to make the piano look good or sound good? You may wish to consider judicious rescaling and an exacting string maker. Terry Farrell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Strang" <rstrang@pa.inter.net> To: "'Pianotech'" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 8:40 PM Subject: RE: Baldwin > The piano did not have the Accu-Just hitch pins, but the M I am going to > replace the bass strings in sometime in the next few weeks, does. I don't > know whether I should have Mapes or Schaff make the strings. I think Schaff > is cheaper, but maybe not so much so. What do you all think? > -----Original Message----- > From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On > Behalf Of Delwin D Fandrich > Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 1:31 PM > To: Pianotech > Subject: Re: Baldwin > > > How old was the Baldwin M? Did it have vertical hitches? If so, welcome to > the wonderful world of SynchroTone strings--the core and wrap sizes tend to > jump all over the place. Hence, so does inharmonicity and the harmonic > structure of the strings. It's not really random, it just seems that way. > These pianos are a good reason to work on one's aural tuning skills. > Especially in the bass. > > Del > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Richard Strang > To: pianotech (E-mail) > Sent: July 18, 2003 1:26 PM > Subject: Baldwin > > > Hi, all, > I just took a vacation back in Illinois, and while I was there, I > tuned my brother's Baldwin M grand. I brought my Sat lll along just for the > occasion. > Everything went fine with the tuning until I reached the first single > string in the bass. I put it where the Sat said to put it, but it didn't > sound right. My brother has a better musical ear than I and said it sounded > sharp. Aurally, it was tuned 6:3 as it should, but there was a strong beat > higher up. That piano and my brother were not satisfied until I tuned those > last 10 strings 12:6! Can you imagine? Have any of you ran into a similar > situation? It sounded good that way, so that's the way it stayed. > > Richard >
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