[ some "oddly noisy" Baldwin 45" Hamilton actions..........]

[Avery Todd]

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Albert,

Since you said all the HB flanges were loose, I'd also check the 
wippen flanges. Might help.

Avery

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>Subject:        [admin] some "oddly noisy" Baldwin 45"/Hamilton 
>actions..........
>Date:   Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:39:09 -0600
>From:   Albert Thomas <thomaaw@auburn.edu>
>To:     <pianotech-owner@ptg.org>
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>Situation:   Occasionally I find an extraordinarily noisy Baldwin/studio
>action.........sounds as though every shank-to-hammer glue bond is
>broken,  every hammer flange is loose,  etc.........
>To briefly describe it using a recent occurrence instead of a
>longwinded generic summary :  a recent customer so far out of town that
>the time zone  included mention of the last century;  it is the last
>piano on that time-warp tour, and running far into after-dark hours
>"right smack" in the greatroom of the jolly and noisy family, I
>encounter the bizarre noisemaker ("of course they have never noticed it,
>God bless 'em indeed though, great locally-successful people trying to
>feed me supper, cookies and sodas")  The basic "harp" of the approx.- 35
>year old Hamilton was very good, but the action parts were odd in that
>the shanks were spinet-diameter;  all hammer flanges were loose but I
>tightened them;  not one single shank-to-hammer glue joint was broken
>although most glue joints were obviously on the short side of
>quality-control;  there was a functioning DamppChaser dehumidifier with
>No Humidistat (they are adamant to have that corrected,  they understood
>the explanation perfectly.........the first such explanation they had
>ever received) etc. but......
>    the bottom line,   more than 50 % of noise remained after repairing
>one jack stirrup brokengluejoint , tightening all hammer flanges,  and
>...........however having to tune and leave in some hurry without a
>total research of the rest of the action..........my fault and time
>fault.........
>        any suggestions?   happens rarely enough that I have failed to
>do follow-up research during several occurrences over so many
>years.........I need a tightly-focused suggestion if possible,  since
>it is easier to find every problem in an institutional piano serviced
>often, but easy for me to forget to research the outlying time-pressure
>pianos seen only once or twice in a lifetime............
>
>Albert Thomas,  Associate Member PTG,   Bach. Mus. and Med., Master of
>Music Piano Performance
>Auburn University
>Albert Thomas Piano Service,  Auburn, Alabama;   Compton, Arkansas
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