This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hi Joe, Would it be possible for you to make your lines fold/change to next = line. This message was awkward to read, as one needed to scroll sideways. I guess it could have been my set up, but I don't think so, as this is = the only message in a while, that was that way. Thanks. John M. Ross Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Joe Garrett=20 To: pianotech ; hoffsoco@luther.edu=20 Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 3:42 PM Subject: Re: Chickering Square Grand Actions, etc. Conrad asked: "=20 I haven't had my head in a Chickering square lately... JOE! did they put = a=20 repetition action in their late ('80s) squares??Conrad,By the '80's they = were using what we would call a "standard square grand action". The only = piano, I know of, that had a "real" double escapement action", was a = Mathuscheck.As for the pics of the "goofy" chikering action, that is an = impossible piece of junk, that is extremely difficult to regulate. I = just COMPLETED, (Yahoo!), the 1867 Chickering, flat strung, 8' grand, = remanufacturing! I trashed the original action, as it was trash anyway, = with a NEW Renner! How sweet it is!Ronsen Wurzen Hammers and a VERY = CAREFULLY engineered Renner action, weighed off on the "light" side, to = give the impression of the original touch. It plays great, sounds great = and I'm all warm and fuzzy!Took over 20 years, (I'm embarrassed to = admit), of spare time to complete.BTW, it has a Fandrich S.B.! And, a = Fandrich/Garret Scale!Complete new, (Pratt-Read), MODIFIED, Back Action = and the trapwork was re-engineered for ease of adjustment and = function.All in all, it's a killer! When the owner/refinisher, (piano = tech who specilizes in finishing), gets done doing his magic, we are = going to have one helluva PARTY!!!<G>I hope to do something similar to = the "Atalier" thingee, only with an all day seminar for techs, prior to = the "PARTY"!<G>Sorry for being so wordy, but I can't restrain my = joy.<G>Regards,Joe Garrett, R.P.T. Captain, Tool Police Squares R I= ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/84/c4/13/d7/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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