---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment > Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 23:00:34 EST > From: Wimblees@AOL.COM > Subject: Re: Electric piano > > In a message dated 1/4/01 5:16:59 PM Central Standard Time, > dbpowell1@juno.com writes: > > << Hey I have been tuning for 19 years and I tuned my first old electric > Baldwin. > It has no sound board, all the bass strings were single string and the > tuning pins are in the back. Whew what a job. I hope that there are not > too many of there monsters out there. > Dick Powell >> > > > I tuned my one and only Baldwin electric about 8 years ago. It was in a > small > town (population 750) in northern New Mexico. I agree with you. It was a > pain. But it turned out to be a decent sounding instrument. At least the > customer was happy with the result. I don't know how many of them were > built. > Maybe someone o the list knows. > > Willem > Dear List, These were originally designed for Piano Labs (Class Piano), and have been around for at least 35 years. Northwestern University had a lab full of these while I was a student there, from 1966--Tom Porter was the pianotech, and hated those beasts with a passion! Yes, tuning pins on the rear, uncomfortable in the extreme. Stan Ryberg Barrington IL mailto:jstan40@aol.com ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/1d/74/f7/ec/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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