[CAUT] Interesting Story and Clark

[Fred Sturm]

On 8/16/06 11:00 PM, "Rob & Helen Goodale" <rrg at unlv.nevada.edu> wrote:

> Hello,
>  
> A little off topic here...
>  
> I obtained about 20 free pianos from the local major dealer in town.  They
> were moving to a new warehouse and decided it was an opportunity to get rid of
> numerous old trade-ins that had been accumulating for years.  I guess it was
> more economical to ditch them then to perpetually store them.  I picked out
> pretty much everything that was worth fixing and then personally assisted in
> smashing up another 30 or so with a sledge hammer and filling four huge 40
> foot commercial dumpsters.  It was a big job but swinging that big hammer at
> old pianos was kind of therapeutic!
>  
> I have been fixing them up one at a time and a couple days ago I set up an old
> Story & Clark grand.   It's pretty beat up but certainly sellable and "free"
> was a good price.  As I started working on it I immediately noticed something
> really bizarre.  The shift pedal is configured completely backwards!  The
> lever itself is on the left side, and the action slides left instead of right.
> Thus the hammers omit the right unison instead of the left.  Likewise the
> return spring in the keybed is on the left side instead of the right.  I had
> to look at it twice to make sure I wasn't seeing things.  It is very strange
> to see it work this way.  After tuning and working on thousands of pianos at
> this point in my career I can't recall ever seeing this.  Anyone else ever
> come across a left shifting action?
>  
> Rob Goodale, RPT
> Las Vegas, NV
> 

I¹ve seen it a few times. One current customer¹s piano is an Ibach. It¹s
just custom, like which side of the road you drive on. Makes no difference,
except when you are expecting the opposite <g>.
Regards,
Fred Sturm
University of New Mexico


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