Ron, Great to hear and I look forward to tuning one! David I. On 22 Jan 2001, at 22:20, Ron Nossaman wrote: > In the vendor exhibition arena at Arlington, I talked briefly with the > Baldwin rep who told me about some planned changes in the product > line. Today I finally got to tune a new L, so I got a chance to look > one over. Looks like a rubbed out polyester finish, and has the three > stick lid prop - as promised. It also has a fancy new scripty and > colorful soundboard decal, also as promised, as well as a slow fall > fallboard. What wasn't promised was the fact that the tuning pin holes > in the plate webbing were drilled out to, near as I could measure, a > fer sure full 7/16"! There wasn't a single solitary pin in the whole > piano leaning against the plate. I was quite impressed. Why didn't he > mention that? The pins were left a bit high (coil bottoms 5mm - 7.5mm > off the plate), but they were unusually uniform in torque, and not a > snap through a quarter semitone pitch raise and tuning, though they > were pretty tight. They were generally quite controllable and > comfortable. The strings were probably a little high on the hitch pins > at around 7mm, but the bearing throughout was just right by my > reckoning, the soundboard crown was positive, and the overall sound of > the piano was quite presentable if bright. Some general hammer > softening and voicing could produce a quite nice sounding piano out of > this one. The regulation is pretty ragged, but the piano has been in > service since August, so I don't know how it was on delivery. Since I > don't recall ever seeing a regulation improve under hard use, I assume > it was better five months ago. If this is step one in the new enhanced > design and quality control regimen, I certainly approve. I also hope > they leave the nice marketing enhancements and continue to improve on > the performance and quality control tolerances. These could easily be > very nice instruments. > > > Ron N > David Ilvedson, RPT
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