---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment Does anyone have a picture of the Baldwin gauge or are we talking about=20 that aluminum thingy with 3 feet? Greg Newell At 12:59 PM 6/25/2003, you wrote: >> Some things about this chart are unclear to me. What do the=20 >> numbers under the heading 'Bubble' represent? Lines on the gauge? > >Yes. > > >>I don't have a Baldwin gauge but on the Lowell gauge (at least on the old= =20 >>one I have) I believe there are major lines and minor lines. I think=20 >>it's every fourth line that's a major line. Does a bubble reading of 1=20 >>on your chart correspond to 1 minor line on the Lowell gauge? > >The only Lowell gages I've seen are calibrated in 10' increments, or 1/6=B0= .=20 >Baldwin's gage is calibrated in 17' increments, I think, and since the=20 >instructions were in Baldwinese, I sent a conversion chart with degrees.=20 >If you happen to have a level with different calibration, read the degrees= =20 >per line from the Baldwin chart and translate to fit yours. Baldwin's gage= =20 >is 0.005" rise per inch per division, Lowell's is 0.003". This is exactly= =20 >why I have been saying since the first piano I strung that degrees is the= =20 >only sensible measure for stating down bearing, and everyone can convert=20 >to their own personal scale from there. Call it a universal exchange= standard. > >Also, my experience is that any similarity found in actual Baldwin=20 >production pianos, to results obtained from these official instructions,=20 >is purely coincidental. > >Ron N > >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > Greg Newell Greg's piano Fort=E9 mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net=20 ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment--
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