I strongly feel that it would be BEST to replace wippens on such an action if replacing knuckles. But why would it be required? Actually I kinda like the big wide jack on............... Oh, it just came to me as I was writing this.......I'll send it along for any who are not familiar with these. If you use a new knuckle with the funky old wippen, the new knuckle is smaller than the old block knuckle, and the repetition stub will not meet the new round knuckle. After the jack kicks out, when the hammer/shank/knuckle come headin' down, I guess the shank would crash down on the repetition stub with a bit of a clank - 'course, this still may be an improvement................ ;-) Terry Farrell Piano Tuning & Service Tampa, Florida mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Newton Hunt" <nhunt@jagat.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2000 11:40 AM Subject: Re: Brambach Grand Hammer Butts > Obviously you haven't had the pleasure of working on one of > these beasties. There is no way to do this without changing > the wippens as well. Some things are not as simple as they > may appear. > > Newton > > BUNKYPIANO@AOL.COM wrote: > > > > replace with new modern ones > > tm > > >
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