Pictures of the old Pleyel action, was Re: How to apply graphite?

[Michael Gamble]

Hello Calin and List
Yes, this:
> The escapement is achieved by the jack sliding on a board with screws,
is also a device used by early Broadwood uprights. I call it "Inclined Plane 
Set-off"
Broadwood also used the long centre-pin and brass "comb" flange affair.
Regards
Mihai G.(UK)
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Calin Tantareanu" <calin.tantareanu@gmx.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 10:55 AM
Subject: Pictures of the old Pleyel action, was Re: How to apply graphite?


> Ok, Here's a photo I took before starting work on the piano and 
> dismantling
> it to pieces.
> For those who didn't follow the discussion, this is an approx. 1860 Pleyel
> upright, oblique strung, with no iron frame, just metal struts and a 
> partial
> hitchpin plate (pictures of it can be seen on my website).
> Now to the action:
> It has brass rails which hold the hammers and the wippens. The escapement 
> is
> achieved by the jack sliding on a board with screws, all covered by a long
> piece of leather with slits. This leather is black in the attached 
> picture.
>
> If there's interest, I can go and take some more pictures of the separate
> parts, so you can see them better.
>
> Calin Tantareanu
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>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: David Ilvedson
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 2:08 AM
> Subject: Re: How to apply graphite?
>
>
> Time for the digital camera Calin...
>
> David Ilvedson
>