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

[Sid Blum]

I've run into a few of these where the catchers for the backchecks 
were glue starved, clicked not unlike a hammer click.

Also many that had a glob of glue at the bottom of the butt leather. 
Jack would click as it returned.

Sid Blum


>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
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