Restored Baldwin out the door

[Farrell]

You say pre-model R. What can you or anyone else tell me about dating an "R"? A very dear lady has an old, old, old "R" that I service. It is one of the finest instruments I service. It was restrung by someone else a couple years ago and I did the action. It has a warm & dynamic tone I have not heard in other pianos. I have never been able to find a serial number on it. It is 5' 8" and looks much like an R.

I see by your post I could look to see if it has 11 or 10 ribs. About what year did this change? Any other good clues to look for to date it?

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Erwinspiano@aol.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 6:55 PM
Subject: Restored Baldwin out the door
 
>          List
>          Tomorrow I'm delivering a 1920 pre-model R Baldwin. It's 5 ft. 8 " I 
> just thought some would enjoy a thought or two on this. This is the first 
> Baldwin I've had the opportunity to do a complete restoration on including 
> new belly and all. Although I'm not a big Baldwin fan I am very pleased with 
> the way this piano came out. Tonally it's very strong, and dark sounding with 
> excellent sustain characteristics. Very even scale note to note& no weak 
> spots or notes. This board had/has eleven ribs compared to a modern Rs 10 
> heavier built ribs. The original ribbing was really to light especially in 
> the bottom end. Like 15/16 mm deep on the first 3 or ribs.

SNIP