unusual wippens (Ludwig grand)

[Tom Sivak]

No, that's not it, actually.  On the Ludwig I saw had
a hammer rest rail instead of a pad on top of the
wippen.    The most shocking feature was this huge
hammer return spring, mounted on top of the wippen,
which pulled the hammer back into place.  The hammer
shank also had a wooden post, about an inch long, with
a silk loop at the end, into which the huge hammer
return spring was inserted.

Close, but no cigar.

Tom Sivak

--- John Delacour <JD at Pianomaker.co.uk> wrote:

> At 13:02 -0800 5/2/08, Tom Sivak wrote:
> 
> >Holy cow.  I have never seen an action like this
> >before...
> 
> You've got a lot of living to do!
> 
> Was it something like this?  If so it is just one of
> the less happy 
> developments of the English action.  It works but it
> is 
> mis-conceived.  There are far better designs
> developed from the basic 
> English action, some of which perform better and
> repeat faster than 
> the Erard-Herz action.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> JD
>