baldwin console

[Roger Jolly]

Hi Les,
          Figure on a full days work if you are doing the butt leather and
catcher leather for the first time.
Rob Kiddel had a Journal artical about 2 years ago, that gives a step by
step how to.
I think he also has it on his web site.
http://www.teulplanet@.net/public/atonal
Hope this helps.
Roger



At 09:39 PM 19/11/99 -0600, you wrote:
>Well, it LOOKS like leather.........  light brown stuff.  What, then are
>my options?  Do I have to re-leather the hammer-butts?  I've never done
>anything like that. WHAT< ME LEARN SOMETH?ING
>NEW???????????????????????????  I'm not at all sure this guy would want
>to pay lots of dollars for a job like that. He's had it upstairs in a
>loft for about 8 years, hotter than ****, and dry as a bone. Tuning pins
>quite loose.  He says he's an engineer...............  Not very
>engineer-like to leave a piano in an environment like that. I did about a
>50-cent pitch raise, told him to put a couple bowls of water near the
>piano on the floor, which "might" help, though it could play havoc with
>the miserable tuning.  
>les b
>
>On Fri, 19 Nov 1999 18:37:50 -0500 "Nancy McMillan" <nlm@csu.cted.net>
>writes:
>>
>>----- 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
>>
>
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