> > > > I think that there are some ,to say the least, are confused > about what piano is being talked about. > > The Chickering Quarter grand does not have the Fan/Spread > action. I never heard it called "splayed". > I was referring to the 122 quarter grand, with no cheek blocks at all. The action does not spread, but rather in the "splay" I refer to (my own nomenclature maybe), the shanks and whips angle in towards the center of the keyboard. Action parts are nowhere near parallel to the key fronts, and the angle of "splay" varies from note to note throughout the entire scale, being up to 12 deg off of parallel in the bass and low tenor. Actually, I love the sweet voice and light touch of this instrument. My post was simply musing about the practical difficulties imposed by the fan/spread/splay (whatever it wants to be called), and why a designer would choose to follow this path. Again, not as a judgment but as an "I wonder why". Jim I > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > -- grandpianosolutions.com (under construction) Shirley, MA (978) 425-9026 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090809/5db8a4af/attachment.htm>
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