Baldwin 6000 in jail

[Lance Lafargue]

I know several tuners who tuned while they were in prison.......
Lance Lafargue, RPT
New Orleans Chapter
Covington, LA.
lafargue@iamerica.net

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> From: Clyde Hollinger <cedel@redrose.net>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Baldwin 6000 in jail
> Date: Thursday, November 12, 1998 6:30 PM
> 
> Friends:
> 
> The first Baldwin 6000 I ever tuned was just last week in a Pennsylvania
> federal prison chapel.  Anyone else have "tuning in prison" stories they
> would like to tell?
> 
> I get in this prison monthly as a volunteer, so it wasn't as unnerving
> as the first time I heard those gates clang shut behind me.  But I had
> to list every single tool I had with me.  Fortunately, since I knew of
> this requirement beforehand, I took only what I felt would be absolutely
> necessary.  In spite of the likelihood that something would go wrong and
> prevent me from working on the piano, I had no problems to speak of.
> 
> According to the Pierce Atlas, this 6000 was made in 1990.  I was
> surprised to find an instrument of this quality in a prison, but it had
> been sadly neglected -- 60-160 cents flat, all the casters gone and two
> broken bass strings (one was missing).  I didn't feel threatened being
> there but was glad nevertheless to be constantly under the watchful eye
> of a guard (a very nice guy, really) except when I sent him off for a
> tool or some glue!
> 
> If your life is getting too boring, you might want to try something like
> this, or maybe a tuning in a mental hospital (I did that, too, quite a
> number of years ago).
> 
> Clyde Hollinger
> 
> Christopher D. Purdy wrote:
> > 
> > >Most of the ones I have worked on so far are fairly new Baldwin
"Concert
> > >Vertical" pianos. They seem to have been designed with the piano tuner
in
> > >mind - plate is molded nicely for a felt strip mute. Kent, did you
have a
> > >few words to say in the design of that one?
> > 
> > wallace,
> > 
> > welcome back.  the indentation in the plate behind the strings you are
> > refering to is called "krefting's valley" after jack krefting who was
the
> > head of tech service at baldwin back when that piano was designed.  i
> > belive the model number is 6000.  i love them.  great bass, nice
action...
> > pity about the price.  i don't see many of them since my days at
baldwin,
> > cincinnati, though.  i am trying to talk a local church into buying one
> > instead of some cheapo grand.
> > 
> > chris
> > 
> > -Christopher D. Purdy R.P.T.