Baldwin hitch pin replacement?

[Jon Page]

No new caps, bearing on tenor bridge is off as much as the bass bridge,
decreasing to the treble but still about twice as much as needed up there.

Jon Page

At 11:07 AM 08/16/1999 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi Jon,
>
>What's the plate sitting on now?  I have one of these I'm just putting back
>together (Baldwin scale 'E', 5'7").  It had dowels into the rim.  I'm trying
>to figure out how it got that far off.  1/4" is a long way to move a plate.
>
>Did the previous 'tech' put on a new bass bridge perhaps?  How's the bearing
>over the long bridge?  Does it indicate the same 'low plate' on the nose end
>of the piano?  I'm guessing that you would have noticed if the plate was
>doing a lot of flexing when you were tightening it down.
>
>If it appears that putting in the acujust pins will give a proper bearing,
>go for it.  If I remember right, they (Baldwin) don't recommend the string
>being more than about 3/8" up the hitch pin.
>
>Good luck, Jon.
>
>Brian Trout
>Quarryville, PA
>btrout@desupernet.net
> 
Jon Page,  Harwich Port,  Cape Cod,  Mass.  mailto:jpage@capecod.net
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