Cool checking

[J Patrick Draine]

I've seen this kind of buckskin covered hammer tail on this side of
the pond, but I can't recall which manufacturer made it. Could have
been a European piano, but my gut says more likely one of the
"inventive" factories in New York ( such as Haines or Kranich & Bach).
The backcheck may have been felt, like an upright; no buckskin. But I
may be mis-remembering this from some other obscure piano.
Foggily,
Patrick Draine
Billerica, MA

On 1/2/07, Stéphane Collin <collin.s at skynet.be> wrote:

>
> Here is a pic of that Rönish checking arrangement.  The piano is from the
> 1920 and I have no reason to believe that what you see is not original.
> Yet, see the condition of the leather !  And this is in the tenor section,
> where you usually have the parts worn out.  And the noise to catch strength
> ratio is the best I have ran across.
>
> Curiously enough, the rest of the piano is kind of cheap.