Bird cages

[David ilvedson]

> Date:          Tue, 18 Feb 1997 01:30:39 -0500 (EST)
> From:          Ernest Juhn <71341.1370@CompuServe.COM>
> Subject:       Bird cages
> To:            Pianotech <pianotech@byu.edu>
> Reply-to:      pianotech@byu.edu

I worked on a Haines Bros. upright several months ago where I
had to pull the entire keyframe, keys and action out in one piece.
Sort of like a grand piano except with an upright stack.  Didn't
have the adjustable "dip rail", of course it wasn't a birdcage.
What a pain to get in the car...

ilvey, RPT
Pacifica, CA



> Birdcage stuff.
> Mike,  (yes I am old enough to know...)
> Many old German uprights of that vintage have an "attached" action.  To get the
> thing out you slide the key frame (with the keys of course) out and the action
> comes out with it.
> Behind it you will find an  (up and down) adjustable rail which stops the keys
> from bottoming.  That rail acts as a "dip adjustment".
> All the above is of course is only true if you and I are talking about the same
> kind of piano...
> Hope it helps.
> Ernie Juhn, RPT
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