[CAUT] Schwander balancier pinning

[Jim Busby]

Both Eds,

All right you guys....

Nothing worked. Even Baldassin and Vince didn't have an answer. Maybe there is none.

Elvis, here I come...

Jim Busby

-----Original Message-----
From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of A440A at aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 4:22 PM
To: caut at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Schwander balancier pinning

Ed sez:
<< Unhook the spring from the loop, then back off both regulating screws.
You'll get about 8 degrees of free movement to feel or measure.  <<

          Yea, what he said.

And then Ed S goes on to rightfully excoriate the cultural appliques the
brand seems fond of...

>At least you will if I've pulled the right wippen from the trash box. Come
on, it's a Baldwin. Just paint it with Zebra stripes or cover it with blue
suede and get Elvis to sign the plate.  >>

   Yikes, you are one trash box ahead of me,  I don't even have a schwander
whippen in the shop.  Which gives me time to wonder if I would, or could, find
myself in a position to repin balanciers on a Baldwin.  The stock pinning of
those instruments has always seemed to me to be totally all over the map, or
else all pinnings were as loose as a 1971 Big Sur hitchhiker.
   I might dissasemble a few to see just what might be going on, but I would
be realllll tempted to do a chemical approach and douse them all with Protek
if they showed the slightest need...
Regards

Ed Foote RPT
http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html
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