Greg, I have two of the old factory gauges. I'll put together a photo later today for you. Unfortunately they are not available commercially. Charles Faulk On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 22:38:50 -0400 Greg Newell <gnewell@ameritech.net> writes: > > Does anyone have a picture of the Baldwin gauge or are we talking > about > 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 > >> 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 > >>one I have) I believe there are major lines and minor lines. I > think > >>it's every fourth line that's a major line. Does a bubble reading > of 1 > >>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°. > >Baldwin's gage is calibrated in 17' increments, I think, and since > the > >instructions were in Baldwinese, I sent a conversion chart with > degrees. > >If you happen to have a level with different calibration, read the > degrees > >per line from the Baldwin chart and translate to fit yours. > Baldwin's gage > >is 0.005" rise per inch per division, Lowell's is 0.003". This is > exactly > >why I have been saying since the first piano I strung that degrees > is the > >only sensible measure for stating down bearing, and everyone can > convert > >to their own personal scale from there. Call it a universal > exchange standard. > > > >Also, my experience is that any similarity found in actual Baldwin > > >production pianos, to results obtained from these official > instructions, > >is purely coincidental. > > > >Ron N > > > >_______________________________________________ > >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > > > > Greg Newell > Greg's piano Forté > mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net > ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!
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