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<div><SPAN contentEditable=false style="DISPLAY: inline-block"></SPAN>...or "why I love spinet pianos!"</div>
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<div>First piano was in a multimillion dollar home. A little Baldwin spinet, this one with inverted sticker type action. The lady had purchased it for 400$ without any kind of consultation, and her husband and five if his friends had toted it up the stairs and into their castle. I was tuning away, and found one note that wouldn't regulate. Everything was there, but the lost motion ate up about a quarter inch of keydip. I looked for things that might be wedged in there, but I could find nothing. And I didn't have time to pull the action, having already spent most of the appointment pitch raising the pso and vacuuming out the various places where who-knows-what may have dwelt.</div>
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<div>Second piano, a just-delivered rental piano, had the same symptoms--again on only one note--but it was one of the newer type Baldwins with the rubber grommets hooked into the lifter fork, and the plastic nut on top. </div>
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<div>I checked linkage as much as I could, but could find nothing wedged anywhere on either instrument, though on the second one the connecter to the elbow was sitting up too high. Very frustrating. I explained to the owner and renter that this is one big reason why spinets in general should be avoided.</div>
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<div>Anybody experienced this? Thoughts on why this might occur? I'm convinced that there is something wedged inside that I can't see or get to without yanking the action, but any suggestions are more than welcome!</div>
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<div style="CLEAR: both">Dave Stahl, RPT but humbled by Baldwins again<br>
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Dave Stahl Piano Service<br>
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http://dstahlpiano.net/<br>
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