[ some "oddly noisy" Baldwin 45"hamilton actions..........]

[J Patrick Draine]

On Nov 11, 2005, at 12:41 AM, TOM DRISCOLL wrote:

>
>     Dave,
>     I thought the same until the gentleman said it was a 35 year  
> old piano.
>     Corfam was introduced around 1980
>     Baldwin historians ----   am I correct here?
>     Tom Driscoll
>

Tom et al.,
Before the Corfam was another buckskin substitute, typically black  
(like naugahyde, although I think I've seen some that's an off-white/ 
ecru) which seems to have been better than corfam but sometimes  
exhibits similar problems. I had one I was working on last week;  
while the stuff hadn't hardened horribly like Corfam,  hammers  
checking was very erratic. Not very noisy though (as Corfam becomes).  
As this was a "once-a-decade" tuning, and the pianist had no  
complaints about the action, the problem remains (perhaps to be  
corrected in 2015).
patrick Draine