Amazing! What's the vintage? Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico fssturm at unm.edu On Dec 13, 2007, at 7:03 AM, Ron Nossaman wrote: > > Earlier this year, I posted about a Baldwin K in a high school choir > room that suddenly dropped in pitch through a very specific part of > the scale. At the time, I didn't see any reason for it, and assumed > someone on the premises "had hammer, will commit". > > I saw the piano again this week, and the problem had progressed > enough to be obvious even to me. The treble counter bearing bars in > this piano are made of brass angle, which I hadn't realized. I'd > assumed they were solid, as would seem to me to be reasonable and > rational. But no. As the poor quality cell phone photo attached > shows, one of them has splayed out and collapsed, drastically > dropping the pitch in that specific area over time as it happened. > I owe the imagined perpetrator with the nonexistent tuning hammer an > apology. > > Be careful out there. Nothing is safe. > > Ron N > <Baldwin K counter bearing.jpg>
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