Make some punchings and slide them under the strings. If your felt strip is too thick. Place a razor blade on a riser of appropriate thickness and slice along the length a few times on each side. Rip it apart, punch out the punchings and place the rough side of the punchings on the bottom. It doesn't have to be under great compression, just enough to hold it in place which will dampen the segments.
If you have pre-cut punchings that are too thick, drill a hole in a scrap of wood of appropriate depth to slice with a razor blade. Then you'll have scrap punching for something, maybe under felt for the rep lever button. Time consuming, yes but it displays craftsmanship.
FWIW, I thought I'd slip in a plug for Counter Bearing Aliquots to eliminate ratcheting in the tenor section.
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Regards,
Jon Page
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Original Message:
Sent: 11-13-2018 11:51
From: Susan Kline
Subject: Is this Baldwin SD stringing incorrect?
For our 1971 SD-10 in Newport, OR, we put felt strips under those front segments in the capo sections. I also worked on the fittings by slacking off the wire and rubbing the bearing contact surfaces with strips of emery cloth, which helped the capo noises a lot. Only after doing it and then thinking about it did I realize that by letting the strings off far enough to pull them to the side, and then pulling them back to pitch, I was moving some wire around the hitch pin, which put fresh wire against the bearing points. Worked well.
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Susan Kline
Philomath, Oregon
Original Message:
Sent: 11-13-2018 10:40
From: Cy Shuster
Subject: Is this Baldwin SD stringing incorrect?
Tuning a 1985 Baldwin SD yesterday, I heard a few brief, faint weird overtones in the top two sections, where there are unusual fittings at the proximal end of the front duplexes. I then realized that the string segments from those fittings back to the tuning pins were unmuted, passing unimpeded over the thin felt laid out below (see pictures). These segments are up to four inches long! In the rest of the piano, the string underlayment felt mutes these out.
I'm happy to weave in some string braid if this becomes problematic, but I'm curious if this was done incorrectly. I also wonder if those front duplex fittings are tunable. One seems to be in a different position from the rest. They're held with what looks like a rivet. I don't see any way to move them.
Thanks for the incredible amount of experience you all bring to this list...
--Cy--
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Cy Shuster, RPT
Albuquerque, NM
http://www.shusterpiano.com
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