<html> <head> <title>Re: Baldwin spinet "lost motion" issue twice in one week....</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <style></style> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff"> <div>Yeah, or jack flange popped loose.</div> <div> </div> <div>Alan Barnard</div> <div>Salem, MO<br /><br /><br /><br /></div> <div> <hr />Original message<br />From: "Joseph Alkana" <josephspiano@comcast.net> </josephspiano@comcast.net><br />To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech@ptg.org> </pianotech@ptg.org><br />Received: 3/29/2007 10:39:50 PM<br />Subject: Re: Baldwin spinet "lost motion" issue twice in one week....<br /><br /> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Broken jack spring?</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Joseph Alkana RPT</font></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="piannaman@aol.com" href="mailto:piannaman@aol.com">piannaman@aol.com</a> </div> <div style="font: 10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a title="pianotech@ptg.org" href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a> </div> <div style="font: 10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 29, 2007 8:29 PM</div> <div style="font: 10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> Baldwin spinet "lost motion" issue twice in one week....</div> <div><br /></div> <div><span contenteditable="false" style="display: inline-block"> </span>...or "why I love spinet pianos!"</div> <div> </div> <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> <div> </div> <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> <div> </div> <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> <div> </div> <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> <div> </div> <div style="clear: both">Dave Stahl, RPT but humbled by Baldwins again<br /><br />Dave Stahl Piano Service<br />650-224-3560<br />dstahlpiano@sbcglobal.net<br />http://dstahlpiano.net/<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div> <div class="AOLPromoFooter"> <hr style="margin-top: 10px" />AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at <a href="http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/1615326657x4311227241x4298082137/aol?redir=http://www.aol.com" target="_blank"><b>AOL.com</b></a>.<br /> </div> </blockquote> </div> </body> </html>