This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment NOPE! Hammers are bored just fine. This is a much older piano, about = 1932. Joseph Alkana RPT ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Avery=20 To: Pianotech List=20 Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 5:59 PM Subject: Re: Puzzeler from Seattle Knowing Baldwin, the bore distance was probably wrong & you're going = to have to compromise "almost" everything to get it work out decently!=20 Avery=20 At 07:47 PM 2/28/2006, you wrote: For the newbies, and seasoned vets to chuckle over: =20 =20 OK, here's a little mystery question for you regarding the weird = feeling action of a Small Baldwin grand piano. =20 I arrived today for a regulation job at customer's house. Took a = quick tour of the action with my fingers, and proclaimed the action a = mess. Let off appeared to be about a half an inch from the strings, = Drop was really low and keys were pretty much evenly low from factory = spec, but just slightly, dip was a very fat 3/8". But here's the weird = thing that caught me off guard for a few mystifying moments: The hammers = were already adjusted to be a 1 3/4" to 1 7/8" and were pretty much in a = good straight line.=20 =20 Yikes! I thought. Where am I going to get enough whippen lift = from??? OK, that was the quickie analysis. What was wrong with the = action set up as it was? Original hammers, and not too worn, by the way. =20 Joseph Alkana RPT ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20/98/4b/ab/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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