[CAUT] SD-10 duplex question

[Mark Cramer]

We have an 1986 Baldwin SD-10 here with the fancy individual front-duplex
peices and accujust hitch-pins.

String segments from the tuning-pins to the front duplex, and from the
treble bridge to the hitch-pins are open (unbraided), and quite "lively"
throughout the treble.

My question; is this original?

The front segment looks suspect; instead of a thick string cushion, there is
only bushing cloth, which comes nowhere near to contacting/muting the
strings.

(to the best of my knowledge, this instrument has never been restrung)

Would this segment originally have been braided?

I'm going to braid it anyhow (it has a ring-time of 6-7 seconds when
strummed), just can't imagine this segment being intended to ring, no matter
the carefull de-tuning of the actual duplex segments.

thanks in advance, all you good Baldwin folk!

Mark Cramer,
Brandon University