<div>Ken</div>
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<div>I bought one of those back in the early '80's from the old Playboy Club in St. Louis. I rebuilt it and a piano teacher bought it. They were made in the '50's by Baldwin. Not a bad piano. Other than the unusual case, everything else was Baldwin. <br>
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<div style="CLEAR: both">Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT<br>
Piano Tuner/Technician<br>
Honolulu, HI<br>
Author of <br>
The Business of Piano Tuning<br>
available from Potter Press<br>
www.pianotuning.com</div>
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-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Kenneth Jankura <kenrpt@earthlink.net><br>
To: Pianotech List <pianotech@ptg.org><br>
Sent: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 5:56 am<br>
Subject: odd baldwin piano<br>
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<div id=AOLMsgPart_0_0db2d487-3bb8-439c-bd08-36af0ac9c276 style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN: 0px; COLOR: #000; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff">I started tuning yesterday at a church with 5 or 6 pianos. <br>
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As I was talking to the music director, he kept referring to one of the pianos as a "faux" piano. I was curious, and I looked at it very briefly. <br>
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It's a black Baldwin grand, maybe 5' long or so. I didn't get the serial #. It had an "SA" on the plate near the bass bridge, <br>
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but I don't think that's any model designation. <br>
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It has no fallboard, and a fixed music desk, that is, it's screwed in to the case with brass brackets on the side. <br>
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The legs are tapered and conical, and remind me of coffee tables from the sixties. <br>
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It hasn't been tuned in a while, and didn't sound all that bad. <br>
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I told him Baldwin obviously saved some manufacturing cost on the fallboard and the music desk, <br>
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and until I tune it and look at the action, I won't know if other more important cost cutting steps were taken. <br>
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Does anyone know what this piano is? Any warnings or advice? <br>
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Ken Jankura RPT <br>
Newville, PA <br>
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