unusual wippens (Ludwig grand)

[Tom Sivak]

I've tried posting photos but the files are too large.
  I'm nearly computer illiterate, so I don't know how
to make them smaller.  I'll just have to go with the
thousand words...

Tom Sivak
Chicago


--- David Ilvedson <ilvey at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Jeez Tom, a photo and we don't have to guess...
> 
> David Ilvedson, RPT
> Pacifica, CA  94044
> 
> ----- Original message
> ----------------------------------------
> From: "Tom Sivak" <tvaktvak at sbcglobal.net>
> To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
> Received: 2/6/2008 5:14:36 AM
> Subject: Re: unusual wippens (Ludwig grand)
> 
> 
> >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
> >> 
>