Bedevilled by a Baldwin yet again

[Farrell]

You likely already looked, but are the butt felt squares (where the jack rests upon return under butt) missing or hard?

Terry Farrell
  
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From: <Piannaman@aol.com>
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Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 10:29 AM
Subject: Bedevilled by a Baldwin yet again


> 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
>