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<A title=Erwinspiano@aol.com
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> January 04, 2003 7:24 =
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Restored Baldwin =
out the
door</DIV>
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<DIV>----- Original Message ----- <BR><B>From:</B> <A
href="mailto:Erwinspiano@aol.com">Erwinspiano@aol.com</A> =
<BR><B>To:</B>
<A href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> =
<BR><B>Sent:</B>
January 03, 2003 3:55 PM<BR><B>Subject:</B> Restored Baldwin out =
the
door<BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: =
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Interesting post Del as I believe this model is the Balwin C model =
you
mention in the post at the bottom of this one. Shocked may have =
been the
wrong choice of words describing the shallow rib depth but ribs 1 =
thru 4
were 24mm wide and 14,15.5,18,&18mm deep. compared to the =
Baldwin R
model(same length 5ft. 8")<BR>18,21,22,24mm. Same width. I beefed =
up the
bottom 7 ribs in depth.<BR> <BR> =
Baldwin R
depth BaldwinC
depth<BR> rib
=
depth &n=
bsp;
original Rib depth new
depth rib length C<BR> 1 =
18
=
mm  =
;
14
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mm  =
; =
17mm =
23
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inches &=
nbsp; &n=
bsp; &nb=
sp; &nbs=
p;
<BR> 2
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21  =
; =
=
15.5 &nb=
sp; &nbs=
p;
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18.5 &nb=
sp;
31<BR> 3
=
22  =
; =
=
18  =
; =
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22  =
;
40<BR> 4
=
24  =
; =
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18  =
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23  =
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46<BR> 5
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24  =
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18  =
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25  =
;
49<BR> 6
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24  =
; =
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19.5 &nb=
sp; &nbs=
p;
=
26  =
;
42<BR> 7
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24  =
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19.5 &nb=
sp; &nbs=
p;
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24  =
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34<BR> 8
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19  =
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27 <BR> </B>9
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19  =
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21</B> &=
nbsp; &n=
bsp; <B>
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21  =
;
22</FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" =
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lang=0
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face=Arial color=#000000 =
size=2
FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><STRONG> 10
=
17  =
; =
=
19  =
; =
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19  =
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18<BR> 11
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16  =
; =
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17.5 &nb=
sp; &nbs=
p;
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18  =
;
15<BR> 12 no
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rib &nbs=
p;
=
15.5 &nb=
sp; &nbs=
p;
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16  =
;
11<BR> As you can see the original depth of the =
last
five ribs on the C were already stiffer than the Rs.<BR>The first =
8 ribs
were crowned to a 60 ft radius and the last four at a 2 by =
50 and 2
forty ft. It's a very good rib scale with excellent =
response. Board
emc 6% at time of ribbing. >340 thick Sitka panel thinned at =
the edges
except treble. Please use it if you
wish.<BR> Regards =
Dale
Erwin</STRONG></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080>If I'm not mistaken =
(and I might
well be) the Model C was morphed into the Model L -- both approximately =
6' 3" in
length. I don't know what the predecessor to the Model R might have
been.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080>As may be, interesting =
rib
specifications. (Don't suppose you also have the width of these various =
ribs?)
Again, if I'm not mistaken (and the chances of this are getting better =
and
better as this discussion goes on) these early Baldwin grands had
compression-crowned soundboards. It was impossible to tell from the
specifications I had to work with and, needless to say, the bellymen who =
might
have known were long gone. Putting together the various clues at my =
disposal at
the time I came to the conclusion that the boards in the original were
compression-crowned. Later the ribs were made some more substantial -- =
that is,
taller -- when they started (at least quasi-) rib-crowning the things. I =
don't
know when they started leaving the twelfth rib out....</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080>Del</FONT><FONT =
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