Bedevilled by a Baldwin yet again

[Isaac OLEG]

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Hello,


I guess you checked the noise of the jacks return on the cushion ? if too
much lost motion for some time the cushion is now possibly worn or even
unglued on some notes ?

if too hard they are a bit noisy yet, if un glued the jack clicks as hell on
the hammer flange screw.

it is easy to check so I suspect you did.

Best of luck

Isaac OLEG

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  Envoyé : samedi 10 mai 2003 20:20
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  Objet : Re: Bedevilled by a Baldwin yet again


  Check for ...
    loose hammerheads
    loose catchers
    loose let-off buttons
    loose damper heads (incredible how much noise a loose collet in the
damper head can make)
    glue slobber on the jack stop rail
    glue slobber on the damper stop rail

  Z! Reinhardt  RPT
  Ann Arbor  MI
  diskladame@provide.net
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    From: Piannaman@aol.com
    To: pianotech@ptg.org
    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

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