Weaver Piano

[Alan Barnard]

Oog. Better (maybe) than wires and (you-should-pardon-the-expression) rubber/fiber nuts; but regulating with a rocker always sucketh and, in this case, would change the geometry at the whippen capstan, or whatever is down there.

The only inverted action every worth a hoot, in my book, is the Thayer inverted sticker. 

Baldwin made wooden-stickered Acrosonics but they don't have the upper rail and flanges, just a rail with bushed holes for metal guide pins on top of the sticks: better than wires, methinks, but usually requires removing all the keys to comfortably (read that "safely) remove and reinsert the action. The only good things about having to remove the keys, by the way, is that (a), you can sometimes sell a cleaning job when the owner gets a peek at typical underkey gunk, and (b), you can remove the guide-pin rail without worrying about the pins all falling out, because it is easy to put them back one at a time when you replace the keys, and (c), you might find some rare treasure under the keys (like a guitar pick, a 1983 penny, or a kindergarten photograph of the owner's kid).

Alan Barnard
Salem, MO

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Phil Bondi" <phil at philbondi.com>
To: Newtonville <pianotech at ptg.org>
Received: 8/27/2007 4:42:54 PM
Subject: Weaver Piano


>Hi All.

>I ran across this one on a dealer floor today. 
>This is the first time I have seen a drop action 
>that could pass for a console because of the 
>'sticker' configuration.

>Attached are some photos.

>BTW - the piano was made in 1947, and has 
>plastic hammer flanges and damper flanges as 
>OEM. Some got changed today (grr).

>enjoy.

>-Phil Bondi(Fl)