Changed to Rippen/Lindner from Currier

[Richard Brekne]

That would be correct. Lindner is the name. You could actually refit these
with new keys (wooden) and keybed, and a decent action and it would  sound
pretty much like most any Rippen. I did this once about 12 years back.
Lindner themselves sold the keyframe and keys for retrofit. I think they
were trying to save a sinking ship. The cost (including a real action)
was nearly half of what it cost to actually buy the whole piano new so it
wasnt really a thing you could expect to do very often.

The end result was still a cheapo piano, and as those go it was par for
the course I suppose. At least it wasnt pretentious :)

RicB

John Ross wrote:

> The piano was called a Lindner, I think.
> The action and the keys and the keybed were the Mickey mouse part.
> The keys were completely plastic, the centre pin was a piece of spring
> steel inserted into the key, with a plastic piece on the other end
> that way friction fitted into an aluminium channel. The key levelling
> was accomplished with a plastic screw, that was screwed one way or the
> other.
> The action had a lot of aluminium. press cut parts just bent to shape,
> action tapes were a piece of string, attached with hot melt glue.
> It was a real almost toy like apparatus.
> I have never heard anyone comment on how they worked when new, before
> the person had a look inside.
> Rippen, was the name of the manufacturer, if I'm not mistaken.
> Regards,
>

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