---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment List, I know that subject line seems like a bit of an oxymoron, but it's true. I worked on a spinet the other day that was at least an attempt to make a good piano. It was a 1947 George Steck. The first interesting thing I noticed when I took off the music desk was that the lifter wires did not slide into slots on the ends of the keys. Instead, there were holes drilled through the key-ends that the wires poked through. Lost motion regulation was accomplished by turning a round wood nut that was held in place by a cork nut like you find on many player parts. My first thought was "how do you get these out of here without a major hassle and crumbling pieces??" I opened the bottom to adjust the pedal mechanism, and I found my answer: there is a rail with flanges screwed to it iunder the keybed that has lifters to which the lifter wires are attached. The whippens rest on a felt platform at the opposite end of each lifter. So one has to detach nothing to get the action out, except the four bracket bolts. Definitely a better mousetrap, but I'm sure in the end it proved far too costly to fabricate. Anybody else ever seen one of these? I was also surpised by the lack of false beats in the high treble(though, as usual, the bass was torture). Dave Stahl ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/c3/83/73/af/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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