Kranich & Bach

[Avery Todd]

Paul,

Tell her to get a decent piano and forget it!

(Flame suit on!)

Avery

At 08:26 PM 4/18/04, you wrote:
>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
>
>
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