This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I have restored several of these. If they have felt hammers Ronsen makes copies for you. All the rest is just piano work using no new action parts. They end up quite nice, I think., I tune these by removing the overdampers and wearing cloth gloves to damp the strings. I don't want to tarnish the new strings. If I am tuning it, it most likely has been restrung. Some of these had no plate. The best most restorable are those with plates or straps..That would be a plate bolted down with hitch pins in it. Iron straps up to the pin block and perhaps other metal. The ones with all wood are probably not even playable by now. They tend to fold up by now from the stress. Lynn Bullock WHATEVER health problem you or your family may have, put the worlds greatest healer to work for you----YOUR BODY'S OWN IMMUNE SYSTEM. Your body is capable of repairing itself from EVERY disease if you give it the right fuel. Visit http://bullock.goldenkeys.net/ to learn how to get the right fuel and you may also investigate a great automated business to be in at the same time. -----Original Message----- From: Alpha88x@aol.com [mailto:Alpha88x@aol.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 11:37 AM To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: "Bird cage" piano Greetings, The other day I tuned a piano that has all the damper wires in the front of the action....very gently! The people wanted to know if the piano could be refurbished, however, the action wood is not all decrepid and dark and dried out! (as one think it would/should be after all those years) My question is: Was there a company that made replacement actions for these pianos, perhaps in the 1950's, 1960's? The reason I ask is that the action's wooden parts look no older than that....and...are these pianos difficult to rework (new cloth/felts regulation and such)? (I really think this piano is not worth it) rookie, Julia Gottchall, Reading, PA ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/2a/e6/59/07/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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