Hi David, The one that I did perhaps 8 hours of work on was a very well built instrument, with a heavy back structure and substantial plate. I did no scale analysis, but it tuned really well and projected excellently, with surprising sustain for its age. Lots of attention to detail in its construction, and a beautiful case. Someone else had restrung the bass, and the instrument sounded just great for its age. One of the few century-old unrebuilt pianos that I would be happy to give a concert on. The rinky-tink attachment is a pivoting rail that dangles little things that look like old-fashioned buttons against the strings. The buttons will tend to fall off (the thread breaks) and lodge themselves everywhere, so plan to do a through cleaning, especially near the bottom between the plate and board, as they are a nasty buzz waiting to happen. The other pedals were more conventional, but I don't remember their order or much else about the trapwork (other than the presence of five pedals, of course). Enjoy, Joe DeFazio Pittsburgh > From: David Ilvedson <ilvey at sbcglobal.net> > Sent: Tue, Feb 16, 2010 8:48 am > > List, > > Does anyone know anything about a 5 pedal Wing and Sons upright? About a 100 years old. I haven't seen it, but 5 pedals are unusual...California piano...apparently... > > David Ilvedson, RPT -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100216/c584047d/attachment-0001.htm>
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