In a message dated 12/22/99 8:44:23 AM Eastern Standard Time, draine@mediaone.net writes: << it seemed to me that the labor involved in removing all the wippens, fabricating new springs, pulling the old ones out & putting the new ones in, would be the most cost effective way to go. >> Patrick - You were asking if anyone else had run into one of these. I had a customer with one and haven't heard from her in over 15 years. I tried duplicating the broken springs using harpsicord wire but the attempt failed. The bending would have had to be much more accurate than I was able to do. Since it would not repeat without them, I fudged a repair by cutting an upright jack spring in half and using it to hold the hammer off the rest rail. That did not work very well. To the question, if other wippens could be retrofitted, I would doubt it, since this is a wippen without a repetition lever - the spring acting directly on the (hammer butt?), right next to the jack. Bill Maxim, RPT
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