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[Roger Jolly]

Hi Chris,
              I Believe the design of this Instrument was Harold Conklin's
last project with Baldwin. Some unusual features, is steel strings into the
bass bridge, and a tone extender weight at the end of the tenor bridge, to
help stabilize znd smooth out the bass/tenor transition, extra mass added
to the wippen forward of the of the capstan, to assist repitition, and
duplex scaling to increase the tonal pallet, quad dampers in the bass for
reduction of after ring.
 Just some comments for clarification.
Regards Roger


>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.   School of Music  Ohio University  Athens OH
>
>-purdy@oak.cats.ohiou.edu   (740) 593-1656    fax# (740) 593-1429
> 
Roger Jolly
Baldwin Yamaha Piano Centre
Saskatoon and Regina
Saskatchewan, Canada.
306-665-0213
Fax 652-0505