[pianotech] Baldwin upright: bobbling hammers, poor checking

Ron Nossaman rnossaman at cox.net
Thu Dec 22 21:26:54 MST 2011


On 12/22/2011 10:19 PM, Tom Driscoll wrote:
> Patrick,
> Ecsaine not Escaine , but more importantly Ecsaine is the good stuff now
> used to replace the dreaded corfam . Corfam in whatever color
> -incarnation (see recent exhaustive list discussion on this very topic)
> is the material that Baldwin used 30 some years ago that hardens or goos
> up or in general fails in its intent.

I'll still disagree on one thing. The stuff that goos up isn't Corfam. I 
have samples of both light and dark Corfam, which are both hard. Frank 
said he's never seen the stuff that goos up, so it still remains unnamed.
Ron N


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