>From what I can tell in the photo, the piano vintage is early 1900's, yes? If so, my guess is that these are clamps to position and secure an early "roll up" player mechanism. These were separate units, with pedals for pumping, that had "fingers" that came out over the keys and played the notes. Alan Barnard Salem, MO Joshua 24:15 Original message From: "alan forsyth" To: Pianotech Received: 01/23/2007 10:56:48 AM Subject: curious contraption I came across this yesterday and have no idea what it is meant to do. Does anyone know? They are brackets that swivel out from under both ends of the keybed and protrude just beyond the keyslip in front of the legs. There are stop screws to limit the travel. AF -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070123/2fb69cf7/attachment-0001.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpg Size: 31241 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070123/2fb69cf7/attachment-0002.jpg -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpg Size: 55920 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070123/2fb69cf7/attachment-0003.jpg
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