Ribless Baldwin Hamilton

[Barbara Richmond]

And you didn't have your camera...

Barbara Richmond, RPT
near Peoria, Illinois
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Chuck Beck 
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 5:03 PM
  Subject: Ribless Baldwin Hamilton


  I had to share this one, it was interesting.  When I arrived at my second appointment today at a retirement home I was shown to the piano.  It was a Hamilton like soooo many others, and I generally like them.  I carved out the damper pedal lever where it rubbed the plate, and starting listening.  The bass was rattling the soundboard like crazy, and I wondered how I had missed the light poking through the gaps.  Nope.  No caverns or big splits.  It was the ribs piled up in the back.  There were two left partially attached to the soundboard, the rest were held in by the backposts and were as free as my advice.  


  Well, I'll let you guess how this beast sounded.  Really it wasn't as bad as I would have expected considering.   The splitting and curling treble bridge didn't help either, in fact it made the treble almost completely dead.  The funny thing is that the action was pretty ok, the bass bridge was solid (I had noted this first)  and pin torque was even and tight.  Thumper isn't just a bunny.

  chuckbeck


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