---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment At 7:38 PM -0700 3/7/04, Phillip Ford wrote: >>... For those interested here is a link to some interesting action >>parts that are in a 1930 Vose & Sons Grand. >> >>http://tinyurl.com/24qzw > >Thanks for sharing that. A few interesting things: > >1. What I at first took to be a novel wippen assist spring appears >to be the repetition spring. Correct. >... there could perhaps be a little bit of relative movement between >the underside of the repetition lever and the top of the jack as the >action moves through its range of motion ... Very possible. >3. It's not clear to me what the top of the jack is acting against. >It appears to be a slot in the end of the repetition lever. There is no slot. The end is wrapped in leather. There is some indentation by the jack in the leather from usage only, much in the same fashion as a knuckle that is showing signs of being flattened. See pic 10. >... 4. There appears not to be a drop screw, or its equivalent. It >would seem that if you weren't careful about setting repetition >lever height you might end up with almost no letoff feel. Not a >good thing I would think. As I recall, I had to find middle ground between two adjustments. Either direction caused the other to be off somewhat. Remarkably, it does play quite well all things considered. Glad you enjoyed the browse, Keith -- Keith McGavern Texas State Association Registered Piano Technician SOONER SPRING SEMINAR Oklahoma Chapter 731 March 11-14, 2004 Piano Technicians Guild http://www.ptg.org/tsa/ USA ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/5e/aa/1d/77/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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