Replacement action brackets for American Piano Co. products, others

[gordon stelter]

A friend of mine just got the last set of replacement
action brackets for small American Piano Company
grands from the 1920's, that APSCO made, and Schaff
got when it bought APSCO out.
    Maybe Robert Streicher, who makes those gorgeous
bronze replacement transmission frames for Ampico
grands ( and other Amphion system players )can be
encouraged to make these??? I can guarantee that
they'd be far better made than anything APSCO had in
stock!
     Thump
    
--- Mark Dierauf <mark@nhpianos.com> wrote:
> No, both the sets I installed were on similar
> vintage pianos. Pot metal
> seemed to be popular in that age and that factory. I
> once saw an AMPICO
> player transmission frame that had disintegrated to
> nothing more than a
> few lumps of crud almost unrecognizable but for the
> chains, sprockets &
> gears intermingled with them. Again, the two sets in
> my experience
> worked fine, but I can almost remember that there
> were two different
> styles of Aeolian brackets available from APSCO. 
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Life4opera@aol.com [mailto:Life4opera@aol.com]
> 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 8:27 AM
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: action brackets needed
>  
> Hi Mark,
> they do not match, the new ones are much shorter,
> and I can see how the
> rails angles are made which also are totally
> different, plus the
> distance between the metal borders and the screw
> holes are different
> too.
> But thanks for the advice, I guess probably the ones
> you used were for
> more contemporary pianos? This piano is from 1928.
> E CH
> 


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