Baldwin CW-8-S Electric Harpsichord restoration, video, audio and 3d print

[Tehu]

Hi everybody,

This summer I had the chance to get a rare Baldwin CW-8-S Electric Harpsichord for cheap, without strings and missing a couple of jacks.

I spend the summer try to restore it, and I was relatively successful! Ordered new strings, tried options for refurbishing the jacks and I finished redesigning then in 3d printing, based on the Hubbard concept, with metal springs and delrin plectrum.

I made a full lenght video since the information is hard to find. It include a historic, my restoration process and a tons of audio demos, some using extensively the split feature in differents contexts! The video is in french, but there's a lot of image/video that can help you understand better, translation will come but long to do!

The youtube link include a link to the 3d model (stl file) that I dropped for free to everyone to try! It's a lot of adjustment, but as you will see in the video, it works well and do the job!

https://youtu.be/KCZG6nVoNh4?si=jGXQ19GJP55tF5jg

Hope you'll enjoy some light on this obscure instrument! I also got a in depth video about the rare Columbia Elepian, and some other rare stuffs!

Téhu