[CAUT] Baldwin SD

[Avery Todd]

Keith & Susan,

I warned you that sounds are hard to describe in an e-mail!
I obviously didn't do a good enough job of it. :-)

I've heard the sound(s) that both of you are describing and
this isn't that.

It's not a rattling or buzzing kind of sound. It's more of a
distorted sound where about half the normal power of the string
is lost & it just sounds weird. Like I said in my original post,
I'll just bet there's some grooving of some kind inside the
agraffe holes and thereby creating a termination problem.

I wish I'd thought of the screwdriver thing while I was there
just to confirm that the problem is in the agraffes.

Someone on pianotech mentioned a Journal article about refurbishing
agraffes written by Paul Revnko-Jones (I know it's misspelled. Sorry)
That's probably what it's going to take to fix the problem. Or replacing.

Would anyone happen to know the month of the article?

Thanks.

Avery Todd

At 11:15 AM 4/1/2006, you wrote:
>I just had that same problem on an SD 6.
>
>I looked for the paper clip on the board, tightened plate screws (which
>helped the sound) and scratched my head and tightened every screw. Mid range
>sounded awful. I mated hammers to string, seated strings, etc.
>
>It was the sostenuto rod clips. Them things were rattlin to beat all get
>out. Should have been the first thing I tightened, they are right out front,
>highly visible.......
>
>Sigh
>Keith