"Baldwin designs" was "Accu-just hitch pins and tuning stability"

[Avery Todd]

Alan,

I "thought" we were talking about tuning stability!!!!! Right???????

Avery

At 04:18 PM 8/19/05, you wrote:

>Vladan said "... the Baldwin designs are otherwise excellent."
>
>I have to speak out.
>
>Scale designs, sure. Action, fine.
>
>But I have always found Baldwin case designs and 
>hardware--especially the damned fallboard mechanisms--to be 
>atrociously cheap and un-tech-friendly. Remove an upright Baldwin 
>action--then go do the same on a newish Yamaha. Etc., etc., etc.
>
>It seems they followed the Detroit auto industry model from the 70s 
>and 80s: Make them as cheap as possible to assemble, make them look 
>okay on the outside, and pretend that no one will ever have to work 
>on them. Even in the latter years, they just went so cheap--how 
>'bout those stupid T-shaped wooden doohickies that hold the music 
>desk/upper board on the newer Hamilton studios, eh, look at them 
>cross-eyed and they disintegrate.
>
>I know some of you are friends with former Baldwin 
>engineers/designers and I understand that the company was hideously 
>missmanaged in the last years prior to the bankruptcy, but I still 
>think it's annoying.  It's annoying that they were really giving 
>Steinway a run for their money on the high end and had a solid 
>worldwide reputation with tremendous brand recognition--and then 
>blew it all of with stupid, greedy, selfish "leadership" from the 
>top. Puff, puff ... pant, rant ... whoosh, deep breath .... hold it 
>..... let it go ..... ah .... tranquility ..... actually I think 
>I'vefallenasleeeeeeee....
>
>Alan Barnard
>Salem, Missouri
>