Hello list, I just have a curiosity question. I was tuning a 1999 Baldwin SF today and was noticing, what I thought, was an oddity of the front duplex system. If you can see from the picture, some of the duplexes are wider and the speaking length starts a little more back than the others. Surely, this has some affect on the scaling and such, but what seemed odd was that in the first section of duplexes, there seemed to be no pattern of how they were set, wide versus narrow. It just seemed like a random placement to me. (Sorry, the picture doesn't show the full section. I was trying to get a good close up to show the difference in the duplexes). In the 2nd section of duplexes, (the high treble) they were all the same, narrower ones and the start of speaking lengths seemed to look more uniform. Did Baldwin have a reason for placing the duplexes in such a seemingly random way? Or does it even effect the scaling design with such a nominal amount of distance difference that the duplexes were just placed in whatever fashion they were placed? Again, just curious. The piano tuned fine, with whatever rendering problems most Baldwin grands have. :-) Thanks. Barbara Nobbe, RPT Pitch Perfect 859-489-4793 barbara at pitchperfectpianos.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: IMG00301.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 197011 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091117/c56497c5/attachment-0001.jpg>
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