Baldwin SD

[Avery]

Thanks, Andrew.

Your is the only response I've gotten so far.

At 06:56 PM 3/31/2006, you wrote:
>Avery,
>Back at national that happened on a piano we were voicing and we 
>just backed off the one pin and took up on the other to move the 
>string around a little.  Can happen with aggressive lifting putting 
>a little bend where you don't want it.  If the piano is 
>single-strung, as I understand, you may have to try lifting to ease 
>the bend...  \\]

No, it's not single strung (like a Bose). But it does have one single 
looped string per unison from the
middle on down.

>There was something in the journal a while back about damage to 
>agraffes too...that would require removing the string to polish the 
>agraffe.  Not your first choice ;-)

That's my thought, too. Since it probably came that way from the 
factory. Although IMO, it would be more than
"polishing" the agraffes! Definitely NOT my first choice! :-)

Avery Todd

>Andrew Anderson
>
>At 06:00 PM 3/31/2006, you wrote:
>
>
>>List (& especially any of you major rebuilders out there),
>>
>>Do any of you have any direct experience with an SD-6 #118127 (1952 
>>I was told)? My atlas is
>>at the university.
>>
>>Today, I went to look at one for sale at a store at a good price. 
>>For several years, we've been
>>needing one to put into our large orchestra/band rehearsal hall to 
>>avoid having to move one into
>>there from our major performance hall for rehearsals of big concertos.
>>
>>It's been refinished and had new hammers (Renner Blues, I think) 
>>installed on the old shanks.
>>Graphited knuckles, etc. Anyway, I'm not worried about all that. 
>>That, I can handle.
>>
>>My question is, there is a tone problem in the middle agraffe 
>>section. (It's so hard to describe
>>sounds in an e-mail.) The dealer kept saying he thought it was 
>>primarily a hammer fitting/string
>>leveling problem. Yes, there is some of that that needs to be done. 
>>But I believe it's a problem
>>in the agraffes themselves. This isn't a hammer fitting type of 
>>sound. It's a distorted/zinging
>>kind of sound. Like a termination problem or something not seated 
>>well. There are some agraffes
>>that are not parallel to the strings and I first thought that was 
>>the problem. But there are also
>>some with that same sound where the agraffes are lined up 
>>correctly. I'm assuming it probably came
>>that way from the factory. And it's only in that one section. I 
>>didn't have my tools with me because
>>I didn't expect anything like that to come up, so I couldn't even 
>>experiment a little. You don't
>>really notice it all that much when just normally playing it. Just 
>>when playing each note individually.
>>Especially with a little power.
>>
>>The piano has never been restrung. Even still has the aluminum 
>>wrapped type upper bass strings. But
>>it sounds great. A BIG bass sound! Decent sustain. The only real 
>>problem is in that one area. Have any
>>of you run across this? Can the agraffes be straightened a little 
>>without removing the strings? My
>>semi-educated guess is that that section is going to have to be 
>>restrung with new agraffes. Or at least,
>>"redone" agraffes. They did buff the tops of them, though. :-)
>>
>>This is pre-accujust hitch pins and from the first treble break 
>>down, has one single-tie string on
>>each unison. The tech at the store said they could correct the 
>>problem, which I would prefer to have
>>done before we buy it but I was wondering if any of you had any 
>>ideas? The dealer said he'd pay me
>>to do the regulation & voicing. Which it needs.
>>
>>Am I on the right track about the agraffes? Thanks.
>>
>>Avery Todd
>>University of Houston