This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I tuned a 1975-ish Baldwin SD-10 last week - first one I have run = across. It had a unique front duplex system in the top two treble = sections. It was of silver-colored metal and was a one-piece contraption = that incorporated the front speaking length string termination and the = front duplex bar. It appeared with this gizmo, during manufacture, one = could keep the front duplex at some fixed length and move the gizmo = around to set the front speaking length string termination at some ideal = location.=20 Is that what this thing was for? If not, what's the deal with the = interesting-looking gizmo? On the side, this was a piano that seems to be fundamentally in pretty = good condition. I think with A LOT of refurbishing, it could be brought = back to 90+% of its potential. It is in a huge (as in mega $$$) church = dining hall. It is totally bashed up. Drinks have been spilled all over = it. Hammers are stained with coffee,wine, etc. Regulation is way off - = obviously hasn't been serviced properly in decades. I, as well as all = you folks out there, have seen this before. But why, why, why? Is there = any other $100,000 hunk of man-made stuff that any institution would buy = and then not take care of at some fundamental level? About the only = apparent treatment I can imagine worse would have been if they had = stored it outside under a sprawling oak tree for a few Florida summers. = I don't imagine they treat their altar gold pieces like that (wait a = minute - this was a Baptist church - do the Baptists do the gold thing = like the Catholics?). They certainly don't treat their $100,000 sound = mixing board like that (or do they?). What about the $200,000 Rogers = organ? Is this unique to pianos? Terry Farrell ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/55/64/23/c6/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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