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

[TOM DRISCOLL]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J Patrick Draine" <draine@comcast.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 8:11 AM
Subject: Re: [ some "oddly noisy" Baldwin 45"hamilton actions..........]


>
> On Nov 11, 2005, at 12:41 AM, TOM DRISCOLL wrote:
>
>>
>>     Dave,
>>     I thought the same until the gentleman said it was a 35 year  old 
>> piano.
>>     Corfam was introduced around 1980
>>     Baldwin historians ----   am I correct here?
>>     Tom Driscoll
>>
>
> Tom et al.,
> Before the Corfam was another buckskin substitute, typically black  (like 
> naugahyde, although I think I've seen some that's an off-white/ ecru) 
> which seems to have been better than corfam but sometimes  exhibits 
> similar problems. I had one I was working on last week;  while the stuff 
> hadn't hardened horribly like Corfam,  hammers  checking was very erratic. 
> Not very noisy though (as Corfam becomes).  As this was a "once-a-decade" 
> tuning, and the pianist had no  complaints about the action, the problem 
> remains (perhaps to be  corrected in 2015).
> patrick Draine

    Pat,
    I know the stuff---It's been confused with mold as it powders and sticks 
to  everything in site.
    I was working for a Baldwin dealer in Texas around 79' and saw that 
black stuff
    Baldwin called it  "Buttskin"
    T.D.