Hello, Do you mean the Baldwin R scale, Roger? James Grebe R.P.T. of the P.T.G. Since 1962 in St. Louis, MO Home of Handsome Hardwood Caster Cups pianoman@inlink.com ---------- > From: Roger Jolly <baldyam@sk.sympatico.ca> > To: pianotech@ptg.org > Subject: Re: New Wurlitzers > Date: Monday, August 17, 1998 9:48 PM > > Hi Avery, > They have made great strides in the last year. Soft felt on the > jack spoon buttons, click gone. Better quality drop button leather, click > gone. > Better quality knuckles, click gone. They have finally figured out what the > wip assist springs do, and are now regulating them. I'm still lobbying for > the damper timing. As a fast fix just give the lifter spoons a tweek > upwards, usually this will time them correctly and make the action feel > 100% better. > I have built a special gig that is screw adjustable that fits under the > under levers to get them all perfectly level this I set so the lever > capstan screw is in the mid position and 1/16" of play. To get this to > happen I usually find that I have to trim some length off the bottom of > some of the damper wires. > The next step, I place the action on the bench and readjust the jig to be > 1/8" higher than the lifter felt, place the jig back in the piano and set > the spoons, this proceedure will give you perfect damper lift time. > Remember to reset the capstans by blinking the pedal. A very nice budget > piano, that gives a greaat bang for the buck. The C173 is based on the R > scale, and if it is preped well is one of the best value for money buys in > the industry. > Glad you like the changes. > Regards Roger. > > > > > At 10:05 AM 17/08/98 -0500, you wrote: > >Hi everybody, > > > > I'm back from vacation :-( and from tuning for a large sale in the Civic > >Center for a Baldwin dealer in Beaumont. :-) Early starting and late > >stopping. The dealer treated me great though: put me up in a nice Holiday > >Inn, paid for some meals, gave me extra pay above what my actual bill was > >and still wantsme > >to come back whenever I have a day or two to work. All in all, a great dealer > >to work for. They even give a 10 yr. warranty on most of their used > >instruments. He stands behind the instrument and the work. > > Way too many pianos (app. 100) for one person to tune in the time > >available but I managed to get all the grands and a few of the verticals > >tuned. Thought some of you might be interested in comments on the new > >Wurlitzer grands made > >by Samick for Baldwin. > > I haven't had much experience with Samicks but from what I have had, > >these Wurlitzers are an improvement. Especially in tone. I *think* the > >hammers are from Baldwin (red underfelt) and are a lot softer than the ones > >Samicks usually have. So the basic tone is much improved. Even the very > >small ones don't sound too bad and the ones over 5' sound fairly good. Some > >*almost* too soft. > > Except for having to do pitch raises on them all, the biggest problem > >they seem to consistently have is very poor damper regulation. They all had > >notes, from the trichord section on down, which did not dampen well at all. > >The dampers would twist as they came out of the strings and some were bent > >to one side or the other enough that a string would ring through. So I > >spent several hours working on dampers instead of tuning. > > The only other problem I noticed was that a tuning pin or two in the > >tenor area on one piano was so close to the stretcher wood that even my > >rounded > >head tip mashed into the wood a little as I tried to turn the pin. > > All could use a thorough prepping of course, but if/when these problems > >are corrected, they might have a fairly decent low-cost grand if other > >problems don't surface with use and age. > > Quite a way to end my vacation, but at least it got me back into a work > >mode to get ready for school to start next week. > > > >Regards, > >Avery > > > >___________________________ > >Avery Todd, RPT > >Moores School of Music (__) > >University of Houston (oo) Mathematical Cow > >Houston, TX 77204-4893 /---------\/ (Developer of cow-culus) > >713-743-3226 / | x=a(b)|| > >713-743-3226 * ||------|| > >atodd@uh.edu ~~ ~~ > >http://www.music.uh.edu/ > > > > > > > Roger Jolly > Baldwin Yamaha Piano Centre > Saskatoon and Regina > Saskatchewan, Canada. > 306-665-0213 > Fax 652-0505
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