baldwin console

[Avery Todd]

Doug/Les,

    I agree! Have fun, Les.

Avery

At 06:37 PM 11/19/99 -0500, you wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: Leslie W Bartlett <lesbart@juno.com>
>To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 3:39 PM
>Subject: baldwin console
>
>
> > List:
> >
> > I went to tune a Baldwin console today and to fix some "clicky" keys.
> > They clicked only on heavy blows.  I  could see nothing that caused the
> > click.  Finally, I removed a front-rail punching (about.025), and the
> > clicking stopped.  It messed up some other stuff, and I had to return
> > some thinner punchings to several keys.   My thinking was that somehow
> > the jack wasn't getting out far enough from the hammer butt.   Whatever
> > the cause, I'd like to know what more experienced people think.
> >
>Hi Les,
>
>I bet this piano has the dreaded corfam on the hammer butts.  This materials
>gets quite hard and can make a clicking sound if jack escapement is not
>adequate, i.e. hammer rebounding and hard butt corfam clicking on top of
>jack.
>
>Good luck.
>
>Doug Mahard, Associate