[CAUT] baldwin concert grand

[J H]

you're right, now that i think about it this does not have the usual
"adjustable" hitchpins baldwins have.  i don't have a serial number, but it
doesn't look like it's from the 60's.  i believe it has been restrung, and
i'm pretty sure the notches are seperate for each note, but the issue i'm
concerned with is the placement of the duplex bars.  they look like they got
bumped during restringing but were not tapped back to where they should be.
in any case, an easy fix would be to slacken the string tension and just tap
them to "square" so to speak, i'm just wondering if this is how they are
supposed to be placed.  i shoulda snapped a picture.  too bad this thing is
an hour away!  thanks for everyone's input, i will hear soon from the
pianist whether it stayed in tune and will go from there.

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Richard Murphy <rmurphy at siue.edu> wrote:

> Jeremy,
>     I have a Baldwin 9” here from 1964? That was before the Acu-Just hitch
> pins and it too has slanted duplex bars in the first capo section.  If you
> look maybe your bridge is not notched square for each note but rather one
> continuous curve much like the bass bridges of the Steinway L’s.  This is
> true for both sides of the bridge in that capo section both duplex and
> speaking length sides.  If you pluck the strings with your finger you will
> here that they are in tune and not varying in pitch.
>
>
>
> On 5/30/10 12:16 PM, "J H" <jlhservice at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   list - i recently tuned a baldwin 9' grand where several notes in the
> 1st capo range were really out of tune.  on this piano, each note has one
> little duplex "bar" in front of the hitchpin, and right in the killer octave
> these "bars" were wildly out of position, like, they were an very odd angles
> to the strings instead of perpendicular to each string.  now, this could
> only happen during restringing, since they can't really be moved under full
> string tension.  has anybody seen anything like this?  would this cause
> extreme tuning instability?  why would they be at an angle to the string?
> the rest of the piano has the duplex bars aligned perpendicular to the
> strings.
> best,
> jeremy
>
>
>
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