<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Re: [CAUT] Interesting Story and Clark</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> On 8/16/06 11:00 PM, "Rob & Helen Goodale" <rrg@unlv.nevada.edu> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE>Hello, A little off topic here... I obtained about 20 free pianos from the local major dealer in town.  They were moving to a new warehouse and decided it was an opportunity to get rid of numerous old trade-ins that had been accumulating for years.  I guess it was more economical to ditch them then to perpetually store them.  I picked out pretty much everything that was worth fixing and then personally assisted in smashing up another 30 or so with a sledge hammer and filling four huge 40 foot commercial dumpsters.  It was a big job but swinging that big hammer at old pianos was kind of therapeutic! I have been fixing them up one at a time and a couple days ago I set up an old Story & Clark grand.   It's pretty beat up but certainly sellable and "free" was a good price.  As I started working on it I immediately noticed something really bizarre.  The shift pedal is configured completely backwards!  The lever itself is on the left side, and the action slides left instead of right.  Thus the hammers omit the right unison instead of the left.  Likewise the return spring in the keybed is on the left side instead of the right.  I had to look at it twice to make sure I wasn't seeing things.  It is very strange to see it work this way.  After tuning and working on thousands of pianos at this point in my career I can't recall ever seeing this.  Anyone else ever come across a left shifting action? Rob Goodale, RPT Las Vegas, NV </BLOCKQUOTE> I’ve seen it a few times. One current customer’s piano is an Ibach. It’s just custom, like which side of the road you drive on. Makes no difference, except when you are expecting the opposite <g>. Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico </BODY> </HTML>