[pianotech] Bad day in Truman

[Alan Eder]

Paul,

Might be that the glue joints on the hammers were starved, and somebody had to reglue them, forgetting to keep them in line as they dried.  I've done a lot of these Baldwins with starved glue joints.
I have a client with a Baldwin upright which may have this same problem.  Many, if not most, of notes make a "loose hammer head" sound, although none of the hammers actually feel loose when I tried to rock them back and forth (like loose hammers always do on a grand).  Is that one of the conditions you have encountered with starved glue joints on these pianos?  And is removing and rehanging the hammers the most efficient way to deal with this, or is there some other, slicker way?   I did not have enough time with the piano to try removing and regluing one to answer the question of whether or not what I am hearing is, indeed, loose hammer heads.


Thanks,


Alan Eder





-----Original Message-----
From: Paul McCloud <pmc033 at earthlink.net>
To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Fri, Feb 11, 2011 7:28 am
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Bad day in Truman



Might be that the glue joints on the hammers were starved, and somebody had to reglue them, forgetting to keep them in line as they dried.  I've done a lot of these Baldwins with starved glue joints.  Just a thought.  I still like those old Hamiltons.  Unless they have that awful Ecsaine.  Was it from that era?
Paul McCloud
San Diego
 


 

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These are on a 30 year old Hamilton. The bass section isn't much better. Probably hung late Friday afternoon, or right after the afternoon "coffee break". 
 
Wim

 
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