expanding action brackets revisited

[Jeannie Grassi]

Bruce,

That was also my guess.  These latest ones I've encountered were Depression
Era pianos so that would affirm that. Also, I think experimentation within
the industry has gone on throughout the decades and some of the ideas were
bad and some stuck.  Unfortunately, some bad ideas continued to be used.
I'll add Merrill to my list of brands to watch.

Thanks,

jeannie

 

  _____  

From: Bruce Dornfeld [mailto:bdornfeld at earthlink.net] 
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 7:44 PM
To: pianotech
Subject: Re: expanding action brackets revisited

 

Hello Jeannie, The first piano I encountered with expanding action brackets
was a chapter project rebuild.  It was a Merrill grand, 5' 2", built in
1911.  The North Shore Chapter (still called the Waukegan Chapter at that
time) rebuilt it in 1985.  My guess is that the cheap pot metal was used
because better quality materials were getting too expensive or, more likely,
unavailable.

 

 

Bruce Dornfeld, RPT

bdornfeld at earthlink.net

North Shore Chapter (We still go to Waukegan from time to time)

 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20081005/8197efa1/attachment-0001.html