Thanks you very much for the info about the piano's age! I have another question regarding this piano: it has a strange device (round metal box with some wheels in it) installed under the soundboard, towards the left end of the keyboard. This device is connected to an extra pedal located to the right of the sustain pedal, and to two more rods which lead to the underside of the keyboard, where they seem to have been attached to some kind of knee levers, or maybe something else. Photos can be seen on my website: http://calintantareanu.tripod.com/piano/schiedmayer/index.htm This whole device operates two wooden bars, one placed behind the dampers, and the other at the back end of the keys, on the keyframe. Just below the dampers and behind the hammers, touching them, are some kind of metal springs with a small red wheel on the lower side. The whole system doesn't work now, because some parts are missing. I wonder what it was supposed to to. My first thought was that it is some kind of mute, but the mechanism is far too complicated to be just that. Thank you for your help! Calin Tantareanu ---------------------------------------------------- http://calintantareanu.tripod.com ----------------------------------------------------
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