List: Name that piano: I'm working on a small grand that has been refinished and the make and serial number were "erased". It has a true "back action" for the dampers -- a separate action with action brackets, rails, underlevers that look almost like "mini-wippens", and two lifter rods-- one for the underlevers and one for the sostenuto wippens or levers or jacks or whatever they're called--they're not tabs; they're similar to the auxiliary levers in wippens of uprights that have lost motion compensators, pinned into slots in the underside of the underlevers, each with its own tiny spring, like a micro upright jack spring. You have to take the dampers out to remove the thing. I've seen one before, but never worked on one. The upstop rail is part of it. None of the damper action remains fastened to the belly rail. Most of the trapwork is in a recessed area of the keybed, like on grand players and a few other grands. The owner thinks it may be a Brambach. I can't find any other clues. Not real important -- just curious. --David Nereson, RPT, Denver
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