Baldwin

[Richard Strang]

Can you recommend an exacting string maker? I'd sure like this piano to
sound as good as it can. It sits in the living room of the U.S. ambassador
to Panama.

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On
Behalf Of Farrell
Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 8:29 PM
To: Pianotech
Subject: Re: Baldwin


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
>
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