Jim, At 10:32 AM 4/1/2006, you wrote: >Hi Avery, > >What's the other end look like? Downbearing, With just a rocker gauge, good. >bridge, etc.? Fine, no cracks. Soundboard, ditto. >Did you buy it yet? Not yet. The head of our piano dept. was going to try and get out there sometime this weekend to play it. Avery >Jim busby BYU > >-----Original Message----- >From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of >Avery Todd >Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2006 8:09 AM >To: caut at ptg.org >Subject: [CAUT] Baldwin SD > >List, > >I put this on the pianotech list Saturday PM but so far have only had >1 response. I also want to pick anyone's brain on this list who might >have knowledge of this problem and/or the best way to correct it. >Thanks. > >Avery Todd >University of Houston > > >Do any of you have any direct experience with an SD-6 #118127 (1952 I >was told)? My atlas is >at the university. > >Today, I went to look at one for sale at a store at a good price. For >several years, we've been >needing one to put into our large orchestra/band rehearsal hall to >avoid having to move one into there from our major performance hall >for rehearsals of big concertos. > >It's been refinished and had new hammers (Renner Blues, I think) >installed on the old shanks. >Graphited knuckles, etc. Anyway, I'm not worried about all that. >That, I can handle. > >My question is, there is a tone problem in the middle agraffe >section. (It's so hard to describe sounds in an e-mail.) The dealer >kept saying he thought it was primarily a hammer fitting/string >leveling problem. Yes, there is some of that that needs to be done. >But I believe it's a problem in the agraffes themselves. This isn't a >hammer fitting type of sound. It's a distorted/zinging kind of sound. >Like a termination problem or something not seated well. There are >some agraffes that are not parallel to the strings and I first >thought that was the problem. But there are also some with that same >sound where the agraffes are lined up correctly. I'm assuming it >probably came that way from the factory. And it's only in that one >section. I didn't have my tools with me because I didn't expect >anything like that to come up, so I couldn't even experiment a >little. You don't really notice it all that much when just normally >playing it. Just when playing each note individually. Especially with >a little power. > >The piano has never been restrung. Even still has the aluminum >wrapped type upper bass strings. But it sounds great. A BIG bass >sound! Decent sustain. The only real problem is in that one area. >Have any of you run across this? Can the agraffes be straightened a >little without removing the strings? My semi-educated guess is that >that section is going to have to be restrung with new agraffes. Or at >least, "redone" agraffes. They did buff the tops of them, though. :-) > >This is pre-accujust hitch pins and from the first treble break down, >has one single-tie string on each unison. The tech at the store said >they could correct the problem, which I would prefer to have done >before we buy it but I was wondering if any of you had any ideas? The >dealer said he'd pay me to do the regulation & voicing. Which it needs. > >Am I on the right track about the agraffes? Thanks.
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