Our '56 Baldwin D was a mess of false beats, no sustain at all, and the whole mess. We did a Wapin retrofit and I installed Ronson Wurzen hammers and new wippens too. It came out wonderfully! I would like a bit more depth in tone (in my ears) but everyone here loves the improvement. Beats a new board and bridges, eh? Paul From: "McCoy, Alan" <amccoy at ewu.edu> To: CAUTlist <caut at ptg.org> Date: 11/16/2010 01:17 PM Subject: Re: [CAUT] pinned agraffe Thank for your post Don – putting this issue into its larger, proper perspective. But one quibble. >The tonal change is not dissimilar to doing Wapin bridge pinning, at least to my ear – brighter and thinner tone with a little more sustain. This has not been my experience of Wapin at all. This past summer I installed a Wapin bridge on a Kawai GE-1 that had many bridge termination problems, as well as a weak and noisy treble with little or no sustain. After the Wapin treatment it now has a much fuller tone espcially in the troublesome capo regions of the piano. There have been some Wapin installations where I didn’t notice much difference, but this one was clearly a benefit, and more in the treble than the bass. Now, of course, I cannot answer the question, would this same benefit have occurred were I to have simply repinned the bridges and solidified the pins with epoxy. It’s never easy, for us in the field, to draw conclusions based on one-off applications. Maybe better to not reach for a conclusion, just keep eyes and brain open to possibilities. Alan From: Don Mannino <dmannino at kawaius.com> Reply-To: CAUTlist <caut at ptg.org> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:20:36 -0800 To: <rhohf at centurytel.net>, CAUTlist <caut at ptg.org> Subject: Re: [CAUT] pinned agraffe The tonal change is not dissimilar to doing Wapin bridge pinning, at least to my ear – brighter and thinner tone with a little more sustain. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20101116/21fcfbea/attachment-0001.htm>
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