Hi Carlos, We have many of these Baldwin Hamilton 243s, about 26 years old, at Howard U. I, too, was looking for that string scale and found two in Travis¹s book listed ³Baldwin Hamilton, 45,² but neither scale fit the pianos we have because the number of bass strings is wrong. Couldn¹t find any gauges on bridge or otherwise. Interesting thing was, I mic¹d the string and was ready to replace, something like D3, but when I got the string around the hitch pin and looked at the bridge...it hadn¹t been drilled for two of the needed pins! But at one point there was a string on there, I guess just laying across the bridge, because I found the broken string looped in the bottom of the piano. Not sure what that might have sounded like, or how tunable it was. Guess that¹s why it broke! I have checked several other 243s at the school, and they all have the necessary bridge pins. Maybe one day I¹ll learn to drill and install bridge pins and put a couple on that piano. For now, though, one string on that unison is going to have to do, as it has for many years probably. Paul -- Paul Milesi Registered Piano Technician (RPT) (202) 667-3136 (202) 246-3136 Cell E-mail: paul at pmpiano.com Website: http://www.pmpiano.com From: Carlos Ralon <ceralon at comcast.net> Reply-To: <pianotech at ptg.org> Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 07:00:10 -0500 To: <pianotech at ptg.org> Subject: [pianotech] Baldwin Vertical string gauge Help, Does anyone have the original string gauge of the Baldwin (I think model 243, s.n. 321196 labels were removed) vertical? It has 58 treble unisons. This is the model with the one piece desk and lid, about 20 plus years old. John Travis' book says string gauges were cast into the Baldwin Wickham plates. After gauging the old rusty wires, I don't trust the readings. Any help? Carlos Ralon, RPT -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101110/3420ab9e/attachment.htm>
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