odd baldwin piano

[Willem Blees]

Ken



I bought one of those back in the early '80's from the old Playboy Club in St. Louis. I rebuilt it and a piano teacher bought it. They were made in the '50's by Baldwin. Not a bad piano. Other than the unusual case, everything else was Baldwin. 



Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT
Piano Tuner/Technician
Honolulu, HI
Author of 
The Business of Piano Tuning
available from Potter Press
www.pianotuning.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth Jankura <kenrpt at earthlink.net>
To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 5:56 am
Subject: odd baldwin piano


I started tuning yesterday at a church with 5 or 6 pianos.?
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As I was talking to the music director, he kept referring to one of the pianos as a "faux" piano. I was curious, and I looked at it very briefly.?
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It's a black Baldwin grand, maybe 5' long or so. I didn't get the serial #. It had an "SA" on the plate near the bass bridge,?
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but I don't think that's any model designation.?
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It has no fallboard, and a fixed music desk, that is, it's screwed in to the case with brass brackets on the side.?
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The legs are tapered and conical, and remind me of coffee tables from the sixties.?
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It hasn't been tuned in a while, and didn't sound all that bad.?
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I told him Baldwin obviously saved some manufacturing cost on the fallboard and the music desk,?
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and until I tune it and look at the action, I won't know if other more important cost cutting steps were taken.?
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Does anyone know what this piano is? Any warnings or advice??
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Ken Jankura RPT?
Newville, PA?
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