New Wurlitzers clarification

[pianoman]

Hello,
Do you mean the Baldwin R scale, Roger?

James Grebe
R.P.T. of the P.T.G.
 Since 1962 in St. Louis, MO
Home of Handsome Hardwood Caster Cups
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> From: Roger Jolly <baldyam@sk.sympatico.ca>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: New Wurlitzers
> Date: Monday, August 17, 1998 9:48 PM
> 
> Hi Avery, 
>          They have made great strides in the last year. Soft felt on the
> jack spoon buttons, click gone. Better quality drop button leather, click
> gone.
> Better quality knuckles, click gone. They have finally figured out what
the
> wip assist springs do, and are now regulating them. I'm still lobbying
for
> the damper timing.  As a fast fix just give the lifter spoons a tweek
> upwards, usually this will time them correctly and make the action feel
> 100% better.
>  I have built a special gig that is screw adjustable that fits under the
> under levers to get them all perfectly level this I set so the lever
> capstan screw is in the mid position and 1/16" of play. To get this to
> happen I usually find that I have to trim some length off the bottom of
> some of the damper wires.
> The next step, I place the action on the bench and readjust the jig to be
> 1/8" higher than the lifter felt, place the jig back in the piano and set
> the spoons, this proceedure will give you perfect damper lift time.
> Remember to reset the capstans by blinking the pedal. A very nice budget
> piano, that gives a greaat bang for the buck.  The C173 is based on the R
> scale, and if it is preped well is one of the best value for money buys
in
> the industry.
> Glad you like the changes.
> Regards Roger. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> At 10:05 AM 17/08/98 -0500, you wrote:
> >Hi everybody,
> >
> >   I'm back from vacation :-( and from tuning for a large sale in the
Civic
> >Center for a Baldwin dealer in Beaumont. :-) Early starting and late
> >stopping. The dealer treated me great though: put me up in a nice
Holiday
> >Inn, paid for some meals, gave me extra pay above what my actual bill
was
> >and still wantsme
> >to come back whenever I have a day or two to work. All in all, a great
dealer
> >to work for. They even give a 10 yr. warranty on most of their used
> >instruments. He stands behind the instrument and the work.
> >   Way too many pianos (app. 100) for one person to tune in the time
> >available but I managed to get all the grands and a few of the verticals
> >tuned. Thought some of you might be interested in comments on the new
> >Wurlitzer grands made
> >by Samick for Baldwin.
> >   I haven't had much experience with Samicks but from what I have had,
> >these Wurlitzers are an improvement. Especially in tone. I *think* the
> >hammers are from Baldwin (red underfelt) and are a lot softer than the
ones
> >Samicks usually  have. So the basic tone is much improved. Even the very
> >small ones don't sound too bad and the ones over 5' sound fairly good.
Some
> >*almost* too soft.
> >   Except for having to do pitch raises on them all, the biggest problem
> >they seem to consistently have is very poor damper regulation. They all
had
> >notes, from the trichord section on down, which did not dampen well at
all.
> >The dampers would twist as they came out of the strings and some were
bent
> >to one side or the other enough that a string would ring through. So I
> >spent several hours working on dampers instead of tuning.
> >   The only other problem I noticed was that a tuning pin or two in the
> >tenor area on one piano was so close to the stretcher wood that even my
> >rounded
> >head tip mashed into the wood a little as I tried to turn the pin.
> >   All could use a thorough prepping of course, but if/when these
problems
> >are corrected, they might have a fairly decent low-cost grand if other
> >problems don't surface with use and age.
> >   Quite a way to end my vacation, but at least it got me back into a
work
> >mode to get ready for school to start next week.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Avery
> >
> >___________________________
> >Avery Todd, RPT
> >Moores School of Music                  (__)
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> >
> >
> >
> Roger Jolly
> Baldwin Yamaha Piano Centre
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> Saskatchewan, Canada.
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