I think Jeff is right. On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Jeff Tanner <tannertuner at bellsouth.net>wrote: > I want to say I'm thinking that for Baldwin, the key height spec was > measured to the top of the keytop. I have a roughly 10 year old Baldwin > service manual, but since the move from the university I haven't been able > to put my hands on it. It's in one of these boxes somewhere. > Jeff > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* nevin essex <nevin.essex at gmail.com> > *To:* caut at ptg.org > *Sent:* Sunday, July 05, 2009 9:33 PM > *Subject:* Re: [CAUT] Original SD-10 Key Height > > I think it the spec was 2 5/8, give or take 1/16. I worked there and made > the gauges, but that was 10 years ago. > > On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Bob Hull <hullfam5 at yahoo.com> wrote: > >> >> Rebuilding the action of an SD 10 and it appears that someone has already >> been monkeying with this one. The balance rail pins are almost buried in >> the mortise. The key ht. on the old action is 2 3/4" to the underside of >> the keytop. Does someone know what the original specs were? The piano >> action handbook says 2 9/16" for Baldwin concert grand but I didn't know if >> the SD10 would be different than a generic older Baldwin concert grand. >> >> Also, original specs for hammer blow and dip if you know. I'll make my >> adjustments from there. >> >> >> Thanks. >> >> Bob >> >> >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20090707/6bfb6554/attachment.htm>
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