This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hello Terry F In your post re:the modern grand damper system: I wholeheartedly agree = with the pain of having to extract the action and crawl into a dark = cavity in order to adjust those wretched damper-lever wire-block = grub-screws. (Wow! what a long-winded name for such a little thing!) = There are all sorts of damper actions and grand actions out there - the = results of manufacturers experiments - take the old Erard grand with its = bi-furcated hammer shank. Through the slot in this shank a splined metal = tongue protruded from the whippen (lever) to act as a check! I think it = was also them who had the dampers and damper unit under the grand = strings. Comes out completely as a unit - damper heads, action and all. = I even tune a very old grand - almost a square grand - where the hammers = hit the strings from above and so the damper unit is also above the = strings - just as you are thinking of Terry. With the hammer action = under the strings there will always have to be a connection to the = dampers over the strings. The only thought I can produce is that there = should be a further "pivotal lever" attached to the Whippen in order to = reverse the action and push up the damper wire. The simplest damper = action will, of course, be found in the Fortepiano. Regards and deep thoughts about changing the piano world from Sunny = Sussex in the Downlands. Michael G (UK) ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/87/3c/86/77/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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