[CAUT] Chickering Quarter Grand

[Conrad Hoffsommer]

Bob,

At 09:03 PM 3/16/2006 -0800, you wrote:
>At a small college that I  just added as a new
>customer, I  tuned a Chickering Quarter Grand today.
>
>I pulled the action to try to improve regulation on
>some of the most offensive notes and ran into a set-up
>that is unfamiliar to me.
>
>No cheek blocks:


No cheek blocks?  I seem to recall that there were vestigial ones, about 
1/4" thick, with attachment screws which went into the rim and were 
accessed below the keys.


>what is there to hold the action in
>the correct position - just  the dags and the keyslip?

Force of habit?  I only get to see the one in my client base about every 
other year - this is the off year and CRS is hitting.

>Hammer Flanges and shanks at an angle similar to the
>back half of the key stick.

...and hammers hung at interesting angles because of it. Chickering had a 
habit of doing that.  It took them a while to get away from their square 
piano habits.

>Wippen flanges - I couldn't see them clearly beneath
>the hammer rest rail but the wippens were very wobbly
>side to side so much so that they were rubbing. Didn't
>have time to dig into them and see why.

How are you at brass flange repair??
;-{

>Were these a decent little grand in their day?

Opinions vary...



Conrad Hoffsommer - Keyboard Technician
Luther College, 700 College Dr., Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045
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