Brown action....

[gordon stelter]

I look forward to your impressions, Del, and possible
regulation advice.  I wish the one I'm working on had
some hammer height adjustment system ( other than the
rail felt ) but it played pretty well, considering
it's scorched condition . I'm contemplating adapting
some action parts ( like the sawn-off ends of
conventional hammer shanks ) to make a set of flanges,
to replace the carbonized ones. ( The flanges are
forked in this thing, not the shank ends. ) 
     Gordon


 What we've been looking at these past few days is
> the standard Brown action that
> was used by Chickering for a number of decades.
> Given that Chickering was among
> the brighter of the early piano builders I've always
> figured he must have had a
> reason for continuing to use this action well after
> the Hertz-Erard action was
> adopted by other builders. I've finally gotten my
> hands on one and look forward
> to playing around with it some.
> 
> If I'm not mistaken Jack Wyatt has a model of this
> action and probably has
> regulating tips and ideas as well.
> 
> Del
> 
> 
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