<HTML> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 23:00:34 EST From: Wimblees@AOL.COM Subject: Re: Electric piano In a message dated 1/4/01 5:16:59 PM Central Standard Time, dbpowell1@juno.com writes: << Hey I have been tuning for 19 years and I tuned my first old electric Baldwin. It has no sound board, all the bass strings were single string and the tuning pins are in the back. Whew what a job. I hope that there are not too many of there monsters out there. Dick Powell >> I tuned my one and only Baldwin electric about 8 years ago. It was in a small town (population 750) in northern New Mexico. I agree with you. It was a pain. But it turned out to be a decent sounding instrument. At least the customer was happy with the result. I don't know how many of them were built. Maybe someone o the list knows. Willem </BLOCKQUOTE> Dear List, These were originally designed for Piano Labs (Class Piano), and have been around for at least 35 years.  Northwestern University had a lab full of these while I was a student there, from 1966--Tom Porter was the pianotech, and hated those beasts with a passion!  Yes, tuning pins on the rear, uncomfortable in the extreme. Stan Ryberg Barrington IL mailto:jstan40@aol.com</HTML>