Alan - I service one of those with the added weirdness of not having traditional capstans. The backs of the keys and whippen bottoms are mortised and pinned together with wooden abstract. It has a double-ended capstan in the middle operating like a turnbuckle. The bottom of the abstract is forked and snaps onto the center pin on the back of the key, so anytime you remove the stack they all have to be pulled off and snapped back on. It was built in 1943. I haven't figured out if the design had something to do with the war effort or recreational drug use. Has anybody else seen this? Mick Johnson, R.P.T. University of Nebraska, Kearney Kearney, NE 308-237-9264 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20101116/76c4e881/attachment-0001.htm> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: BC.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 311757 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20101116/76c4e881/attachment-0002.jpg> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: BC2.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 236810 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20101116/76c4e881/attachment-0003.jpg>
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