1906 Steinway Upright

[tune4u@earthlink.net]

Good news! I'm not doing a full restore or regulation ... just some center
pin work. I don't even like regulating regular (repetitive redundancy?)
spoons.  As to removing the hammer/flange assembly, the first ones I tried
were right next to the center brackets so there was no room to turn the
hammer head to slip it out ... hence more disassembly than I wanted to do!

Someone SHOULD rebuild this piano, but the customer is A) Elderly, B) An
infrequent, half-hearted player, and C) Not going to invest much in this
piano that the family got for free 40 years ago.

Thanks to all who responded.

Alan Barnard
Salem, MO

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Ballard" <yardbird@vermontel.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 7:34 PM
Subject: Re: 1906 Steinway Upright


> At 10:02 PM -0600 12/10/02, <tune4u@earthlink.net> wrote:
> >2.  Is there any reasonable way to remove a Steinway double flange
> >assembly, hammer, and butt without disassembling the whole action?
>
> The whips certainly wouldn't need to come off just to extract a
> double (or set of 88 thereof). The spring rail might look as if it's
> in the way, but as long as both the damper levers and hammer butts
> are pinned with brass plates, it's not.
>
> Must be you're thinking of replacing the double flanges, and not much
> else. Seems to me the subject came up here recently.
>
> >3. I love the little "C" shaped spoons that curve around the wippen
> >flange screw!
>
> What I love about them is that if you spoon bender catches the spoons
> up in that semicircle part in stead of the vertical base, the spoon
> simply rotates instead or bending. I look forward to hearing you vent
> steam during the course of your involvement with the action. <g>
> (Then of course there are the solid wooden spoons of 20 years
> earlier.)
>
> Bill Ballard RPT
> NH Chapter, P.T.G.
>
> "May you work on interesting pianos."
>      ...........Ancient Chinese Proverb
> +++++++++++++++++++++
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