<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2314.1000" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff style="COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Courier = New"> <DIV><FONT size=2><SPAN class=930163700-20072003>The piano did not = have the Accu-Just hitch pins, but the M I am going to replace the bass strings = in  sometime in the next few weeks, does. I don't know whether I should have = Mapes or Schaff make the strings. I think Schaff is cheaper, but maybe not so = much so. What do you all think?</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV align=left class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr><FONT = face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> = pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Delwin D Fandrich<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, July 19, 2003 1:31 PM<BR><B>To:</B> = Pianotech<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Baldwin<BR><BR></DIV></FONT> <DIV><FONT color=#000080 face="Comic Sans MS">How old was the = Baldwin M? Did it have vertical hitches? If so, welcome to the wonderful world of = SynchroTone strings--the core and wrap sizes tend to jump all over the place. = Hence, so does inharmonicity and the harmonic structure of the strings. It's not = really random, it just seems that way. These pianos are a good reason to work = on one's aural tuning skills. Especially in the bass.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080 face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080 face="Comic Sans MS">Del</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="BORDER-LEFT: #000080 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A href="mailto:rstrang@pa.inter.net" = title=rstrang@pa.inter.net>Richard Strang</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org" title=pianotech@ptg.org>pianotech (E-mail)</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> July 18, 2003 1:26 = PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Baldwin</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2><SPAN class=050301520-18072003>Hi, all,</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2><SPAN class=050301520-18072003>  I just = took a vacation back in Illinois, and while I was there, I tuned my = brother's Baldwin M grand. I brought my Sat lll along just for the occasion.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2><SPAN class=050301520-18072003>   = Everything went fine with the tuning until I reached the first single string in = the bass. I put it where the Sat said to put it, but it didn't sound = right. My brother has a better musical ear than I and said it sounded sharp. = Aurally, it was tuned 6:3 as it should, but there was a strong beat higher = up. That piano and my brother were not satisfied until I tuned those last 10 = strings 12:6! Can you imagine? Have any of you ran into a similar situation? = It sounded good that way, so that's the way it = stayed.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2><SPAN = class=050301520-18072003></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2><SPAN class=050301520-18072003>Richard </SPAN></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>