[CAUT] Baldwin Accujust

[Jeff Tanner]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net>
To: <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Baldwin Accujust


> Jeff Tanner wrote:
>
>> So, call it circumstantial evidence, but it appears to this non-engineer 
>> to be related to the vertical hitch pins.
>> Jeff
>
>
> Ah, think I may know what you're hearing. It isn't the hitches, but more 
> likely the long open back scale....

Yes, I know that's part of it, which I described. It is quite loud and 
interferes with being able to hear what you're trying to tune. But I also 
hear a lower tone, just like knocking on the plate, as if the vibration is 
carrying down the vertical pins and reverberating in the plate.  The tone I 
hear from a tuning strike sounds a bit like a "thonk" at the initial strike, 
with the string tone following shortly after.

> Some people don't mind the noise, and some hate it. Harold apparently 
> didn't mind it.

Well, if it weren't quite so loud...
Jeff