This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I've cleaned and prepped my share of old Baldwin studio pianos and besides all the normal action noise, I've noticed that the catcher and hammer butt glue joint is sometimes loose. It will almost sound like a loose hammer, and is genererally only heard with a medium to hard blow. That's something you might want to check. David Foster Auburn Hills, MI ----- Original Message ----- From: Piannaman@aol.com To: pianotech@ptg.org Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 10:29 AM Subject: Bedevilled by a Baldwin yet again Hi List, I was going to list this as "Today's Puzzler," only that wouldn't be fair, because I don't have an answer yet...:-( Hopefully, with a little more tweaking, and some good advice from this great resource, I can come up with one. A friend of mine bought a 70's Baldwin Hamilton Studio from a local dealer. I went out to do the free tuning/service call, and found that the piano had basically not been seviced at all in the shop. It was a quick in-and-out deal. The piano was filthy inside, really out of tune, had plenty of lost motion, and had lots of action noise. After a bit of regulating and a tuning, the piano sounded and played much better--except for the clacks. This is a corfam era piano, but I know that sound: this is not it. What I'm hearing is almost like a jack or hammer shank slapping on something. I think I've got it isolated to the whippen. Last night I took the action out and tightened every action screw in sight(and some hidden ones). They were definitely on the loose side. Put the action back in, and the clacking/clicking was still there. If I had much hair left, I'd be pulling it out by now...any suggestions as to what this might be would be extremely helpful. I guess I'm a Bald-whiner. This comes a day after tuning a 90's Baldwin that has hammers that make granite seem soft where I couldn't get a clean unison on isolated single strings in the temperament....:-} Thanks in advance, Dave Stahl ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/ba/58/ea/14/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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