Baldwin warranty / 743 question

[Richard Brekne]

Thanks to those who responded. Guy, Lawrence, and others.

Fred, I wasnt personally bashing Baldwins.  I dont really like 
manufacturer bashing of any sort, tho I can recognize that many of us 
have issues with certain piano makers.  I was more curious as to the 
comments I've heard increasingly that come off pretty negative sounding, 
and was beggining to wonder if it had been better or not for Baldwin to 
have simply passed on into the history books instead of whats happening 
now since the Gibson takover.

Guy... I grew up with a Baldwin Acrosonic like you mention.  As I began 
my tuning carreer I quickly came to wonder why so many other pianos of 
similiar size and type were so very inferior in so many ways. The 
Acrosonic stayed stable and tuned easily and had a minimum amount of 
action problems for a spinet, while most of the competition were simply 
a big turn off to have to work on.  But thats a long ways back now. 
Whats been produced these past 15-20 years has been perhaps a bit 
different qualilty wize ??...

Thanks again.

RicB

Fred Sturm wrote:

> Richard,
>     Why bash Baldwin?
>     In answer to your question, I have liked the concert grand (SF? I 
> get model numbers confused); various of the grands, with adequate prep 
> (which they weren't receiving at the factory in recent years); and the 
> 6000.
>     Bottom line: there are lots of good Baldwin designs in both recent 
> and previous times (I like my personal M from the 50's quite a bit, 
> for instance). There have been issues of inadequate quality control 
> and inadequate prep. And bad decisions (buckskin substitutions, 
> putting the "DH Baldwin" name on imports, the initial move to Arkansas 
> without a good process for training factory staff, etc). But all in 
> all, I have more positive than negative thoughts about Baldwin, for my 
> own part.
> Regards,
> Fred Sturm
> University of New Mexico