Kranich & Bach

[Paul Chick (Earthlink)]

Hello Members
A customer has a Kranich & Bach grand c. 1902 that needs everything.  The
backchecks are the same as any typical vertical piano...that's just as you
picture a vertical in your mind, with no buckskin over the felt.  The ends
of the hammer tails are wrapped with buckskin.  The action is so far out of
regulation the hammers won't check, so I can't gauge the affectivness.  The
customer wants the piano to "work" and is not concerned about preserving
anything historical.  Has anyone converted one of these actions to the usual
grand back check and hammer tail?  Other than the above arrangement, the
action and keys appear to be a conventional style, but no una corda or
sustenuto.
Thank you.

Paul C