<!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 6.00.2900.2802" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>NOPE! Hammers are bored just fine. This = is a much older piano, about 1932.</FONT></DIV> <DIV>Joseph Alkana RPT</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=avery1@houston.rr.com = href="mailto:avery1@houston.rr.com">Avery</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech List</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, February 28, = 2006 5:59 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Puzzeler from = Seattle</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>Knowing Baldwin, the bore distance was probably wrong = & you're going to have to compromise "almost" everything to get it work = out decently! <BR><BR>Avery <BR><BR>At 07:47 PM 2/28/2006, you wrote:<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite"><BR><FONT = face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>For the newbies, and seasoned vets to chuckle over:<BR></FONT> <BR> <BR><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica" = size=2>OK, here's a little  mystery question for you regarding the weird = feeling action of a Small Baldwin grand piano.<BR></FONT> <BR><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>I arrived today for a regulation = job at customer's house. Took a quick tour of the action with my fingers, = and proclaimed the action a mess. Let off  appeared to be about a = half an inch from the strings, Drop was really low and keys were pretty much = evenly low from factory spec, but just slightly, dip was a very fat 3/8". = But here's the weird thing that caught me off guard for a few mystifying = moments: The hammers were already adjusted to be a 1 3/4" to 1 7/8" = and were pretty much in a good straight line. <BR></FONT> <BR><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>Yikes! I thought. Where am I = going to get enough whippen lift from??? OK, that was the quickie analysis. What = was wrong with the action set up as it was? Original hammers, and not = too worn, by the way.<BR></FONT> <BR><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica" = size=2>Joseph Alkana RPT</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>