Kranich & Bach

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In a message dated 4/18/2004 6:28:58 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
tune4@earthlink.net writes:
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
      Paul
  I did one of these years ago & I believe we converted it to a modern 
arrangement. It should be absolutely no problem at all. Are the backchecks angled to 
the non angled hammer tails ? I'm just trying to recall the details. If so 
I'd fix that to if the checks will turn easily. It depends on how the metal is 
anchored in the check head. If it's threads , no problem if its the flat spade 
arrangement then don't change it.

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