Bedevilled by a Baldwin yet again

[Piannaman@aol.com]

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Hi List,

I was going to list this as "Today's Puzzler," only that wouldn't be fair, 
because I don't have an answer yet...:-(  Hopefully, with a little more 
tweaking, and some good advice from this great resource, I can come up with 
one.

A friend of mine bought a 70's Baldwin Hamilton Studio from a local dealer.  
I went out to do the free tuning/service call, and found that the piano had 
basically not been seviced at all in the shop.  It was a quick in-and-out 
deal.  The piano was filthy inside, really out of tune, had plenty of lost 
motion, and had lots of action noise.  After a bit of regulating and a 
tuning, the piano sounded and played much better--except for the clacks.

This is a corfam era piano, but I know that sound: this is not it.  What I'm 
hearing is almost like a jack or hammer shank slapping on something.  I think 
I've got it isolated to the whippen.  Last night I took the action out and 
tightened every action screw in sight(and some hidden ones).  They were 
definitely on the loose side.  Put the action back in, and the 
clacking/clicking was still there.

If I had much hair left, I'd be pulling it out by now...any suggestions as to 
what this might be would be extremely helpful.  I guess I'm a Bald-whiner. 

This comes a day after tuning a 90's Baldwin that has hammers that make 
granite seem soft where I couldn't get a clean unison on isolated single 
strings in the temperament....:-}

Thanks in advance,

Dave Stahl

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