---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment In a message dated 6/18/2002 3:56:19 PM Pacific Standard Time, ANRPiano@AOL.COM writes: > Subj:innovative upright action > Date:6/18/2002 3:56:19 PM Pacific Standard Time > From:<A HREF="mailto:ANRPiano@AOL.COM">ANRPiano@AOL.COM</A> > Reply-to:<A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> > To:<A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> > Sent from the Internet > > Hi Andrew Yes I have seen one like this and it did indeed act like a repitition spring. !890s as I recall. My friend Wade Muncy still owns it I think and it's STILL unrestored. Built like a battleship it is. Dale > > I had a customer bring by the action of the piano he is refinishing. He > wanted me to replace the bridal straps, dampers, etc. This action includes > > one very unique feature which I, in my limited experience, (15 years) do > not > remember seeing before except on a certain west coast action. There is a > spring connecting the jack and hammer butt to speed the return of the jack > under the butt. The spring is about the length and shape of the hammer > return spring and it is connected to the butt by means of a silk thread > attached behind the jack felt on the butt. There is also a slot in the > jack > for the silk to pass through in order to connect to the spring. At the > bass > of the jack is a spring tensioner. The piano is a Chickering Bros. (the > Chicago branch of the family) apparently from the early part of the > century. > > BTW from the best I could tell this system worked as I imagined it was > intended to work. The jack did reset before the hammer returned to a full > rest. > > Has anyone seen one of these before? I have seen a number of Chickering > Bros. pianos and they all seem to be well built, often with "unique" > features. It seems the experimentation bug was genetic. > > Andrew Remillard ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/5d/28/15/e7/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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