[CAUT] Baldwin Accujust

[Paul T Williams]

I always wondered why they made them soooo tight (pinblocks).  It makes no 
sense to me.  You would think that after years and years of this, they 
might have gotten a clue... The ones from the 50's are finally nice and 
snug like you and I like!  Perhaps this was the goal??? but why struggle 
with them for 50 years prior? The pins, by now way torqued out of 
wack...Maybe not 50 years,, but at least 25....still...why???Del...Do you 
know why?

Paul




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   "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.
>





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