Bedevilled by a Baldwin yet again

[Piannaman@aol.com]

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List,

I was finally able to get back to my friend's house to check out the Baldwin 
Studio that was making a really obnoxious clicking noise.  I went out to the 
lady's house today to try to solve the problem.  Well, I was right....there 
was not enough keydip!  It took me awhile to figure out what was causing the 
noise.  Turns out it was the backslap of the jack on the corfam that was 
creating the sound.  The harder I hit it the harder it slapped back.  The 
nanosecond delay also confused me and made it seem almost like a rattle.

I gave it a quick remedy:  I de-regulated the let-off buttons half a turn, 
and voila, the clacking was gone in every key.  The jacks were now a couple 
of millimeters away from the rock-hard corfam on the rebound due to the 
introduction of more aftertouch.  

I did not have time to regulate the keyheight and keydip this afternoon, but 
those are the next things I will check.  Increasing let-off distance is a 
very temporary remedy.  There is nowhere near the power in the hammer blow as 
there was before my "fix." But the noise that was driving Linda buggy is a 
thing of the past.

Thanks for all of the input!

Dave Stahl

 In a message dated 5/10/03 7:25:27 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
Piannaman@aol.com writes:


> 
> 
> >> Just a little to much key dip. The jack is slapping the let off rail a 
>> bit hard. Maybe the glue on the felt there was over done. Did the clacking 
>> start when you took out the lost motion? Sure sign you have to much dip. 
>> Keith Roberts 
>> 
> 
> Keith, 
> 
> This just got me thinking.  If anything, the dip is too shallow.  The key 
> height does not seem right to me, either:  it's too low, if I were to judge 
> just by looking at it.   I got so focused on the action, I neglected the 
> keys.  I'm wondering if maybe certain keys are hitting the keyslip.  It 
> sure sounded like whippen/hammer assembly noise, but noises do tend to get 
> tossed around in there, don't they? 
> 
> Thanks to everyone for their suggestions.  I'll let you know what it was 
> when I figure it out! 



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