This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Conrad Hoffsommer posted this: "Inquiring minds want to know... Have = you yet determined the cause?" in reference to the Keyboard Schlump = Disease in the Baldwin 6000.=20 Well ... I just got back to that piano today. Here's what I did and what = I learned .... Made sure the action was sitting properly on the posts and that the = three pedal rods were properly set. Checked blow distance and damper = functioning.. There was zip, zero, nada lost motion: adjusted ALL capstans.=20 There are no screws that I could find to adjust the height of the center = rail, as someone suggested. Also, one key might be low but adjacent to = another that is high--not whole sections too high or low. Measured white key heights and selected the height I wanted--shoulda = looked it up in Baldwin specs but didn't have them with me (oops). Leveled whites and then set all sharps 1/2" with Jarvis tool. I added as = much as .025" to some keys and 6 were so low I started by using a much = thicker felt punching. Others were so high that even the thinnest felt = was too much and (true confessions) I got out the 80 grit. Readjusted capstan heights, tweaked let-off, and thoroughly tested all = keys. Piano looks much better and plays just fine. Part of the problem, and there's a lesson here that I learned, is that = this piano was in a humid bar for a few years--many of the bass hammer = heads had "popped" off their moldings. The keys are long and many have = big dog legs. Some are warped and canted enough that they give an = appearance of uneven heights even when leveled as best they can be. One = key was so bad, I asked Baldwin to send a replacement--just before the = bankruptcy and sale. Believe it or not, I actually got the new key, no = charge, and it only took three months of nagging ... er ... reminding = them that they had promised it. What caused the KSD in the first place?=20 I haven't got the foggiest idea. I can tell you that the center rail = felts were all original little brown Baldwins and what little paper was = under them was in such a condition that I'm certain it was factory = original, too. You might be thinking that only the warped keys ended up = at strange heights, but it's not true.=20 Weird. If I go back and find it uneven again, I'm calling an exorcist. Alan Barnard Stumped & Schlumped in Salem, MO ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/fc/56/d0/73/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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