Mark, We don't have an SD, but we have 4 SF's. One is from 1982 and is exactly as you describe, with the thin bushing cloth material merely serving an aesthetic purpose. Just for fun, I went to check one of our 1994 models and guess what. The cloth used in those pianos was thick enough to mute that string segment! Odd thing about it is that, while yes, there is more after ring on the 1982, it actually has a much more lovely sound than the newer ones. Once you get those non-speaking segments tuned the tone cleans up nicely. It was used for years as a recital piano in a "back up" venue. I wouldn't let them use the newer ones for a recital if they were all we had. I don't think that has as much to do with the muted non-speaking section as it does with the crappy sounding hammers they put on the later models. Jeff On Tuesday, February 15, 2005, at 05:02 PM, Mark Cramer wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >
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