<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2769" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: = Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=rol= e_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV>Tom,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>You're probably right.  I dunno...Baldwin historians?  Where'= s Roger Jolly?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I also had one Baldwin Studio of perhaps the same age that had the jack= s back-thwacking the butts because of inadequate aftertouch.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Dave S.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 11/10/2005 9:43:23 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, tomtuner@verizon.net writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><= FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size= =2> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-L= EFT: #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>Fr= om:</B> <A title=mailto:Piannaman@aol.com href="mailto:Piannaman@aol.com">Piannaman@aol.com</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=mailto:pianotech@p= tg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> ; <A title=mailto:thomaaw@auburn.edu href="mailto:thomaaw@auburn.edu">thomaaw@auburn.edu</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, November 11, 2005 1= 2:33 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [ some "oddly noisy"= Baldwin 45"hamilton actions..........]</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV>Albert,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>What you're hearing, in all likelihood, is Corfam, the material use= d to cover the hammer butts.  Baldwins of a certain vintage are notoriou= s for the knocking sounds created by the action.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Dave Stahl</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>    </DIV> <DIV>Dave,</DIV> <DIV>    I thought the same until the gentleman said it w= as a 35 year old piano.</DIV> <DIV>    Corfam was introduced around 1980 </DIV> <DIV>    Baldwin historians ----   am I correct= here?</DIV> <DIV>    Tom Driscoll</DIV></DIV></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>