Avery, I am not acquainte with your particular brand but you might wish to contact Odd Aanstad, see page 12 in the 1995 PTG Directory, for information, As for the brads, yes, that is part of climatizing the piano for the humidity extremes found in India. In other words, when the glue lets go on the keytops, the brads are there to hold the keytops in place. With the hyde glues that were used at the time, this was a common problem so the pianos were tropicalized to stay todgether. Soundboard often have screws all over them going into the ribs every few inches for the same reason. Sometimes even action joints are bradded together. Ed Hilbert, RPT
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