Cy, Maybe I'm missing something here but if it shifts the action, it moves the hammers! Avery At 10:23 AM 10/16/04, you wrote: >Thanks. I wondered about that, but the una corda does shift the >action. I don't think the hammers move, too, but I'll look again. I >guess it could have been a standard design feature, installed even in >grands that didn't use it. > >--Cy-- > >----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman@cox.net> >To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> >Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2004 11:13 AM >Subject: Re: Pivoting hammer rest rail? > > >> >>>I worked on the action of a 1923 Ellington grand last week. The hammer >>>rest rail was supported by brass rods at the action brackets, with felt >>>bushings that allowed the rail to pivot upwards through roughly 90 >>>degrees. What's that for (besides making it easier to access the wippens)? >>> >>>--Cy Shuster-- >> >> >>That's the soft pedal. It was common in players, rather than an action >>shift, and showed up in some other pianos that never had a player in >>them. I had an old Bradbury grand with this kind of arrangement, with a >>lost motion compensator built in to the wippen. >> >>Ron N > > >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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