[pianotech] LANGER ACTION

[Tony Caught]

Hi Larry, I think that around that time Kimball owned Langer  actions and
as Norman said 'wanted better pianos'. Kimball also owned Beachcomber at
the same time.  Action is good but needs to be regulated properly.
Tont
On Jan 16, 2013 9:59 AM, "Norman Cantrell" <normancantrell at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

> Larry
>
> This was toward the end of the Kimball era and it was one of their
> attempts to move to a higher place in the piano industry.  These mostly
> appeared in studio pianos.  I have serviced a few of these over the years
> and for the most part they work well.  Like anything else occasional
> maintenance is required especially after they get a few years on them.
>
> Norman Cantrell, RPT
>
> --- On *Tue, 1/15/13, Larry Fisher RPT <larry_fisher at pdxtuner.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Larry Fisher RPT <larry_fisher at pdxtuner.com>
> Subject: [pianotech] LANGER ACTION
> To: pianotech at ptg.org
> Date: Tuesday, January 15, 2013, 4:47 PM
>
>   I tuned a Kimball studio with a Herrberger Brooks Langer action in it.
> All went well except for the fact that this action had an additional spring
> to facilitate faster repetition.  During the tuning I had to adjust a few
> dozen or so to rid those notes of repetition failure.
>
> There’s a brass colored spring consisting of an L shaped piece of wire
> .......  the long part of the wire is embedded in the back of the catcher,
> aimed downward about 45 degrees towards the long part of the jack.  On the
> jack is a piece of buckskin for which the short part of the spring’s L
> shape rides against during anytime but at rest.  It’s supposed to help push
> the jack back under the hammer butt ...  in addition to the traditional
> coil shaped jack spring  .........  also brass in color.  If adjusted too
> tight, it causes the jack to hang up on the buckskin of the hammer butt
> when returning.  This means the jack doesn’t get back under the butt for
> another blow.  Quite annoying when trying to tune.  I adjusted the spring
> down and to the right to lessen the force and that fixed the failure.
>
> The hammer rail proudly labeled the action as a Langer whatever with a h.
> b. jack or something like that.  I just knew I should have taken a
> picture.  I got focused on visiting with a very pleasant artist type about
> my age instead.  Anyone have a clue what I’m talking about??    The action
> guys, not the girl ok??
>
>
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