no bridal straps!

[James Grebe]

Most of the Whitney, cheap Kimball< had no bridle straps.  They seem to work
just fine with the light action parts when they were new.  Worked for the
Kimball dealer in the late 60's
James Grebe
Piano-Forte Tuning & Repair
Artisan of Wood
WWW.JamesGrebe.com
1526 Raspberry Lane
Arnold, MO 63010
pianoman@accessus.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "pianolover 88" <pianolover88@hotmail.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 11:52 PM
Subject: no bridal straps!


> Maybe I've just never notiiced, but  this is a first for me. Brought home
a
> customers'  Whitney spinet action for the basic file/reshape job. Wasn't
> till I got it home and on the cradle that I noticed, much to my surprise,
> the complete ABSENCE of bridal straps. It appears that they were NEVER
> installed. (Cost cutting measure, no doubt) Granted, this is the cheapest
of
> the cheap spinets, circa 70's, but still i have never seen this before. Is
> this a rare sighting? Obviously, the action, for what it is, seems to
> function fine without them.
>
> Terry Peterson
>
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