Chickering Brass Grand Wippen Flanges

[Larry J. Messerly]

Patrick,
Just a suggestion, I was taught that IF I borrow parts from another note
to use A#0 and A#7 on the premise that they are less used notes.

Larry Messerly RPT
Prescott/Phoenix

On Thu, 02 Mar 2000 08:51:23 -0800 "Patrick C. Poulson"
<ppoulson@jps.net> writes:
> Hi Gang! Well, I have once again reentered the magical world of old
> Chickering pianos, with the usual result of finding yet another 
> unique
> design feature from those imaginative people of the old Chickering 
> design
> team.  In this case, I found a 19th century baby grand with brass 
> wippen
> flanges, similiar in design to an upright brass rail hammer butt in 
> that the
> flange uses a plate and screw arrangement to clamp the center pin to 
> the
> flange.  There were, of course, two flanges in which the main 
> portion of the
> flange had cracked at the screw hole, and these flanges were 
> naturally right
> in the middle of the keyboard.  I borrowed the flanges from notes 87 
> and 88
> to allow the owner to play her usual repertoire.  I am just 
> wondering if
> there might happen to be a rebuilder out there who rebuilt an action 
> like
> this in the past and, in converting the action to modern parts, had 
> saved
> some of these flanges and would be willing to part with a few.  I'm 
> sure
> there are none available in the supply house catalogs. 
>     I would like to thank all of you who have been so helpful to me 
> in the
> past in dealing with these odd and/or perplexing problems that have 
> had me
> stumped in the past.  This forum is really a great thing! Thanks, 
> Patrick
> Poulson, RPT