Gulbransen spinet whippen needed

[David Ilvedson]

Broken?  Can't be fixed?

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, California



----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Paul Mulik" <tubist at swbell.net>
To: piano <pianotech at ptg.org>
Received: 5/16/2006 11:29:25 AM
Subject: Gulbransen spinet whippen needed


>Hello list,

>The other day I tuned an old Gulbransen spinet (ca. 1950) which had a broken
>whippen in the tenor section.  The whippen itself is broken, not the flange.
>The Schaff catalog has the kind I need on page 102, item 3768, but when I
>called they said they were all out, and would not be getting any more (due
>to lack of demand, I suppose).

>Does anyone have an old junk spinet action laying around with this type of
>whippen?  If so, I'd like to get a few of them.  Naturally, I'll gladly pay
>for the parts and the cost of shipping them to me.

>Thank you,
>Paul Mulik, Joplin MO