At 02:10 AM 10/3/99 -0400, you wrote: ><!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> ><html> >Horace Greeley wrote: ><blockquote TYPE=CITE>Which Chickering?</blockquote> >Uh.....it's a 5' 10" model. No model number/letter, <i>per se</i>. Ser. >#138577. ><blockquote TYPE=CITE>When?</blockquote> >1924-25 or thereabouts. ><blockquote TYPE=CITE> Whose action?</blockquote> >Chickering's very own, it appears. Wooden rails, iron hangers. Standard-looking >whippens - not some funky design. The kind without hammershank cushions >(cubes). I'm updating it to Renner stuff. Universal whippen with a tall >heel to match the profile of the originals. Seems to work out just fine. ><blockquote TYPE=CITE>Nothing was much "standard" on some of their models, >most notably ><br>the "quarter" and "parlor" grands w/ brass action parts. Still, >I think that ><br>things built after WWI were probably more "standard" than those built ><br>previously.</blockquote> >None of that brass crap in this one. And it isn't a quarter grand, either. >It has about the best sound I've ever heard in a Chickering. Nice, mellow >bass without getting thuddy, and a beautiful singing capo. The top capo >isn't quite as nice, but it's not exactly dead, either. ><blockquote TYPE=CITE>Hope all is well with you and yours.</blockquote> >Thanks! We're all doing dandily. Ditto to you. ><br>-- ><br>Ron Torrella, RPT ><br>Piano Technician ><br>University of Michigan >"Dese are de conditions dat prevail." ><br>School of Music   ; &nb sp; & nbsp; >--Jimmy Durante ><br>734/764-6207 (office/shop) ><br>734/763-5097 (fax) ><br>734/572-7663 (home) ><br> </html> > Hi Ron, With your mail reader in "Martian" mode, this probably constituted Sunday morning old guy abuse, or at least a prose encounter of the third kind, but I managed to sift out a couple of legible words anyway. I just threw away a set of Chickering shanks and hammers about three weeks ago. Sorry, no help on dimensions. I did have to sand down the width of both the shanks and flanges, and wippens to accommodate the tight spacing, so you might want to check the width of the original and replacement parts. It wasn't all that difficult, but it did eat up time I hadn't allowed for. Hopefully, I'll be smart enough to notice next time... maybe. I also replaced the let off screws with longer ones to compensate for the different jack tail angle on the replacements. Worked just fine. Ron N
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