[CAUT] Baldwin Accujust

[Sloane, Benjamin (sloaneba)]

   "I've always assumed... that makes the Baldwin so difficult to tune"

Part of that is the tightest pin block in the industry. I know a guy who was a piano tech at a school in PA. Dad. He showed me once when visiting the enlarged tuning pin on an SD he installed after breaking off a pin that wouldn't turn. He drilled it out. Sometimes the Baldwin Concert Grand will start rolling across the stage before the pin will start turning, if it ever does. 
   Some attribute the stability of the Baldwin to the downbearing. I think it has something to do with the pin block as well. A pain to get in tune, but it stays there if you do it right. 
    
     

-----Original Message-----
From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Tanner
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 12:44 PM
To: caut at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Baldwin Accujust

I've always assumed all that nasty metallic sounding noise that makes the 
Baldwin so difficult to tune and produce a musical tone was the result of 
the vertical hitch pin.
Jeff

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Delwin D Fandrich" <del at fandrichpiano.com>
> The fact that the vertical hitch
> also has certain acoustical benefits through the low bass is simply an 
> extra, if
> unintended, bonus.
>