On Nov 16, 2010, at 9:08 PM, mick johnson wrote: > I haven't figured out if the design had something to do with the > war effort or recreational drug use. I vote for the latter. Amazing how much ingenuity has been used to make pianos harder to service without any perceptible purpose. Undoubtedly the big worry was wear of wippen cushions <g>, or maybe the friction between the capstan and the cushion. It is similar in some ways to some German designs, where there was a sticker snapped onto the key, pinned to the wipp - usually with a rocker capstan arrangement of some sort. I guess the turnbuckle capstan is easier to regulate than the rocker. Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico fssturm at unm.edu
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