Puzzeler from Seattle

[Avery]

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Knowing Baldwin, the bore distance was probably wrong & you're going 
to have to compromise "almost" everything to get it work out decently!

Avery

At 07:47 PM 2/28/2006, you wrote:
>
>For the newbies, and seasoned vets to chuckle over:
>
>
>OK, here's a little  mystery question for you regarding the weird 
>feeling action of a Small Baldwin grand piano.
>
>I arrived today for a regulation job at customer's house. Took a 
>quick tour of the action with my fingers, and proclaimed the action 
>a mess. Let off  appeared to be about a half an inch from the 
>strings, Drop was really low and keys were pretty much evenly low 
>from factory spec, but just slightly, dip was a very fat 3/8". But 
>here's the weird thing that caught me off guard for a few mystifying 
>moments: The hammers were already adjusted to be a 1 3/4" to 1 7/8" 
>and were pretty much in a good straight line.
>
>Yikes! I thought. Where am I going to get enough whippen lift 
>from??? OK, that was the quickie analysis. What was wrong with the 
>action set up as it was? Original hammers, and not too worn, by the way.
>
>Joseph Alkana RPT

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