SD-10 Problem

[Roger Jolly]

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Kevin,
         I addition to my previous post, I small dab of white glue on the
string in the duplex section will tame the noise, this is a back against the
wall temporary fix.
It works well for the noisy individual strings.
roger


At 10:42 PM 24/10/00 -0700, you wrote: 
>
>     I serviced a SD-10 Baldwin concert grand today, and I found something
> really strange. I hadn't really noticed before, but when I got to the top
two
> sections, the tone was really, really jangley. I said "what is going on
> here??"  Upon closer scrutiny, I noticed that the waste sections of wire
> between the individual capo thingees and the tuning pins had nothing more
> than bushing cloth underneath them. The problem with this is that the capo
> thingees leave the wire about 3mm above the plate, therefore, the waste ends
> were just ringing horribly. I mean, I've heard of the "Angels of Steinway
> singing along", but these sounded more like the bells of Hell clanging
behind
> the Grim Reaper. This is the best piano that Baldwin produces; is this what
> they intended when they built it?         
>         What am I missing here? Does tuning include restringing and
> installing felt? Is this the best that we as Americans can produce?
> Kevin E. Ramsey, R.P.T.
> Phoenix, Arizona
> <mailto:ramsey@extremezone.com>ramsey@extremezone.com



Roger Jolly
Saskatoon, Canada.
306-665-0213
Fax 652-0505 
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