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 > > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: > https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > __________________________________ Discover Yahoo! Have fun online with music videos, cool games, IM and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/online.html
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