Stieff upright piano question queri

[pianoman]

Hi Ron,
OK what is a "glyphie"
James Grebe
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> From: Ron Nossaman <nossaman@SOUTHWIND.NET>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: Stieff upright piano question
> Date: Wednesday, September 02, 1998 6:57 PM
> 
> 
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> >Building your own stack, with your own design for the pneumatics!! Isn't
> >that about the equivalent of a doctoral thesis for player technicians?
Good
> >luck with your project!
> >
> >Susan
> >
> 
> I designed one of these things in the early '80s. Based loosly on the
> Amphion design, similar valve footprint, but with the valve blocks
mounted
> right side up and screw and coil spring mounted like the old Wurlitzer
> blocks. Interestingly enough, it's easier to build your own from scratch
> than it is to try to figure out how some of the manufacturers got their
> "designs" to work in the first place. The secret is that you get to steal
> all the good features from all of the good designs through the prime
years
> of player developement without having to tiptoe through anyone elses
patent
> minefield. My valve block worked better than the vast majority, and as
well
> as the best, in a 1.5 X 1.5 X 1" package. I used jacks and flanges with
> capstans for ?? whatever the glyphies are that engage the wippens, and
> leather hinges on the stickers between pneumatic and ... gliphies. I
> installed maybe five of them, one in an orchestrian of my own authorship,
> and they all worked very well. I still service one of them every couple
of
> years, and it still chugs along quite nicely. I decided there wasn't
enough
> of a market at the time, and cut rate/quality/throat hobbiests were too
> numerous to get around, so I let it pass. 
> 
> I made 5 point motors and governers too, but I bought the transmissions
(I'm
> ugly, but I ain't stupid (well, maybe (Ok, you got me))).
> 
> Go for it Andy! 
> 
>  Ron