[pianotech] Noisy Baldwin Spinet

[Mark Potter]

Terry -

Just serviced a Baldwin spinet yesterday with rock-hard grommets that crumbled 
on the 4 keys I needed to remove to ease.  However, they surprisingly were not 
noisy, and I wonder if it is because there was a thin felt punching between the 
nut and the grommet.  Would only take you a minute to find out, I guess.  Try a 
hitch pin punching or thin balance rail punching between nut and grommet.  It 
*might* work.  (And might not!)

Still, if the piano has any age to it - and it surely does - I would think a new 
set of grommets would be in order if you're gonna remove the nut anyway to 
include a felt punching.

Mark Potter




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From: Terry Farrell <mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: Thu, February 28, 2013 6:48:10 AM
Subject: [pianotech] Noisy Baldwin Spinet

Got a noisy Baldwin spinet. The rubber grommets on the ends of the keys are not 
real soft, but a not rock hard by any means - they are still soft enough to 
remove and replace into the metal forks. However, much noise is made upon key 
release. I'm pretty sure it's coming from an impact between the hard nut and the 
somewhat firm rubber grommet. Has anyone else run into this and found that 
replacing the original rubber grommets with new solved the problem? Or were 
these spinets noisy on day one?

Terry Farrell



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