[pianotech] Baldwin D String Rendering

Paul Williams pwilliams4 at unl.edu
Fri Nov 30 14:12:17 MST 2012


Front termination pointsŠsorry!  That's what I meant to say.

Paul


On 11/30/12 2:57 PM, "Terry Farrell" <mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:

>> and they don't render well either
>
>Darn. I hope some Protek has some beneficial effect because this thing is
>horrible. Very frustrating because the darn thing actually seems to be
>relatively free of false beats. Now the cruddy string rendering is going
>to cause real beats!  :-(
>
>Is this the first piano Baldwin used this forward termination gizmo in?
>Is the bar where the strings terminate under the capo a single complete
>unit with the bar the strings go over between the capo and tunings pins
>(two bars connected together)? If so, then this two-bar unit detaches
>from the cast iron capo bar - correct? Is it screwed or anything to the
>capo (i.e. how is it attached to the capo bar)?
>
>Terry Farrell
>
>On Nov 30, 2012, at 3:08 PM, Ron Nossaman wrote:
>
>> On 11/30/2012 1:42 PM, Encore Pianos wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> It certainly seems like a precursor to the SD-10, sharing the vertical
>>> hitch pins and front treble termination bars (the difference being that
>>> your D has a the termination bars as a single piece filling the whole
>>> treble section, the SD-10 has the individual bars that can be adjusted
>>> forward or back).
>> 
>> There's no adjustment. The SD-10 termination pieces mount where the
>>holes are drilled and tapped in the plate.
>> 
>> 
>>> But the function is essentially the same between the two.
>> 
>> It is - noisy usually. I tune a couple of the old system like Terry's
>>photo, and they don't render well either. I'd love to rebuild one of
>>these, as I have a couple of mildly questionable ideas for improvements.
>> 
>> Ron N
>
>




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