Daniel: The damper system in a bird-cage action, if I am not mistaken, is "Oberdaempfer." (overhead dampers). A square piano is known, at least colloquially, in Germany as "ein Tafelklavier." My German is not so great, either. It's been 30 years since I lived in Germany. Bill Maxim
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