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

[Nichols]

At 03:52 PM 11/11/2005 -0600, you wrote:
>Guy,
>
>Correct me if I'm wrong, but the black ones didn't make the noise.
>
>Avery

Technically, Avery, I didn't say that the black ones were the noisy ones. 
But, that is what I meant. Out in the super-dry, our black ones are noisy. 
And, our grey ones are noisy. And.... some of the original buckskin ones 
get noisy. Amazing how well the leather stuff likes humidity above 20 percent!

Later,
Guy


>At 08:15 PM 11/10/05, you wrote:
>>Albert,
>>     With all things snug, noise might be Corfam butt leather or back 
>> check covers. Are they black? Seems like 35 years might be too old for 
>> that. Newer Baldwins also have an odd click from the bridle tape vinyl 
>> on the post. Yours is too old for that, also. Also need to check let-off 
>> rails and action brackets. If it was cooked by an uncontrolled 
>> dehumidifier rod, it's also possible that the main rail is partially 
>> delaminating. Best advice would be to book a couple of hours for 
>> catch-up maintenance.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Guy Nichols, RPT
>>
>>
>>At 08:54 PM 11/10/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>>>caught in the filters..I believe the sender meant to send it to 
>>>pianotech, so please include his address in your reply.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>-Phil, admin for the week
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>-------- Original Message --------
>>>Subject:        [admin] some "oddly noisy" Baldwin 45"/hamilton 
>>>actions..........
>>>Date:   Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:39:09 -0600
>>>From:   Albert Thomas <thomaaw@auburn.edu>
>>>To:     <pianotech-owner@ptg.org>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Situation:   Occasionally I find an extraordinarily noisy Baldwin/studio
>>>action.........sounds as though every shank-to-hammer glue bond is
>>>broken,  every hammer flange is loose,  etc.........
>>>To briefly describe it using a recent occurrence instead of a
>>>longwinded generic summary :  a recent customer so far out of town that
>>>the time zone  included mention of the last century;  it is the last
>>>piano on that time-warp tour, and running far into after-dark hours
>>>"right smack" in the greatroom of the jolly and noisy family, I
>>>encounter the bizarre noisemaker ("of course they have never noticed it,
>>>God bless 'em indeed though, great locally-successful people trying to
>>>feed me supper, cookies and sodas")  The basic "harp" of the approx.- 35
>>>year old Hamilton was very good, but the action parts were odd in that
>>>the shanks were spinet-diameter;  all hammer flanges were loose but I
>>>tightened them;  not one single shank-to-hammer glue joint was broken
>>>although most glue joints were obviously on the short side of
>>>quality-control;  there was a functioning DamppChaser dehumidifier with
>>>No Humidistat (they are adamant to have that corrected,  they understood
>>>the explanation perfectly.........the first such explanation they had
>>>ever received) etc. but......
>>>    the bottom line,   more than 50 % of noise remained after repairing
>>>one jack stirrup brokengluejoint , tightening all hammer flanges,  and
>>>...........however having to tune and leave in some hurry without a
>>>total research of the rest of the action..........my fault and time
>>>fault.........
>>>        any suggestions?   happens rarely enough that I have failed to
>>>do follow-up research during several occurrences over so many
>>>years.........I need a tightly-focussed suggestion if possible,  since
>>>it is easier to find every problem in an institutional piano serviced
>>>often, but easy for me to forget to research the outlying time-pressure
>>>pianos seen only once or twice in a lifetime............
>>>
>>>Albert Thomas,  Associate Member PTG,   Bach. Mus. and Med., Master of
>>>Music Piano Performance
>>>Auburn University
>>>Albert Thomas Piano Service,  Auburn, Alabama;   Compton, Arkansas
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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