another cracked plate question

[Greg Newell]

Bob,
         Have you contacted the "NEW" Baldwin? I would expect that they 
would be able to tell you if the design has changed and whether you could 
order one or not. I would expect that it might be possible to obtain one. 
Worth a try?

Greg Newell


At 11:57 PM 3/28/2004, you wrote:
>I have read all most of the cracked plate subject
>archives and still don't have quite the info I need.
>So, any thoughts would be appreciated:
>This week I went to tune a Baldwin A (about 33 years
>old) and found it a half step low.  It had been many
>years since any previous tunings.  The customer showed
>me 3 places where the plate had cracked and been
>repaired while the piano was quite new.  So figuring
>the repairs had held all of these years I set out to
>bring it up to pitch, still carefully.  I did not
>overshoot 440 but planned to tune it up to 440, see
>where it dropped back and tune it there.  During the
>process, only raising the pitch about 20 cents at at
>time, I found another crack in another place about two
>inches from a repaired crack.  I don't think it was
>there when I started.  At that point I informed the
>customer and abandoned my tuning. I said I would get
>back with them about what to do.  They are quite
>attached to this piano.
>
>Since it has been cracked and repaired before and now
>there is another crack, do you think that repairing
>this crack would be futile because it is just a weak
>plate?
>
>Could I find another plate that could be used?  The
>previous repairs are bulky and messy looking welds
>which the customer doesn't like the appearance of.
>
>Bob Hull
>
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Greg Newell
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