Baldwin

[Farrell]

Are you trying to make the piano look good or sound good? You may wish to consider judicious rescaling and an exacting string maker.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Strang" <rstrang@pa.inter.net>
To: "'Pianotech'" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 8:40 PM
Subject: RE: Baldwin


> The piano did not have the Accu-Just hitch pins, but the M I am going to
> replace the bass strings in  sometime in the next few weeks, does. I don't
> know whether I should have Mapes or Schaff make the strings. I think Schaff
> is cheaper, but maybe not so much so. What do you all think?
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On
> Behalf Of Delwin D Fandrich
>   Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 1:31 PM
>   To: Pianotech
>   Subject: Re: Baldwin
> 
> 
>   How old was the Baldwin M? Did it have vertical hitches? If so, welcome to
> the wonderful world of SynchroTone strings--the core and wrap sizes tend to
> jump all over the place. Hence, so does inharmonicity and the harmonic
> structure of the strings. It's not really random, it just seems that way.
> These pianos are a good reason to work on one's aural tuning skills.
> Especially in the bass.
> 
>   Del
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     From: Richard Strang
>     To: pianotech (E-mail)
>     Sent: July 18, 2003 1:26 PM
>     Subject: Baldwin
> 
> 
>     Hi, all,
>       I just took a vacation back in Illinois, and while I was there, I
> tuned my brother's Baldwin M grand. I brought my Sat lll along just for the
> occasion.
>        Everything went fine with the tuning until I reached the first single
> string in the bass. I put it where the Sat said to put it, but it didn't
> sound right. My brother has a better musical ear than I and said it sounded
> sharp. Aurally, it was tuned 6:3 as it should, but there was a strong beat
> higher up. That piano and my brother were not satisfied until I tuned those
> last 10 strings 12:6! Can you imagine? Have any of you ran into a similar
> situation? It sounded good that way, so that's the way it stayed.
> 
>     Richard
>