List: Ralph Allison is a piano, British, a "birdcage-sort-of" which has the dampers above the hammers, but the whole damper mechanism comes off as a unit, making the tuning actually rather simple. It has only two strings per note. It has the old flat kind of tuning pin heads (I purchased the tip for such from Schaff, and it was WAY too large, so the customer silver-soldered the tip after flattening it with a hammer, so that it would at least sort of work). The jack is attached to the key. There are no whippens, no backchecks, but there is a long "sticker" which is attached to the hammer butt by a leather piece. I believe the weight of the sticker holds the hammer in the "check" position by maximizing the bounce from the hammer, thus simply holding the hammer back by the weight of the sticker. It was 200-250 cents flat............................... It's now just 100 cents flat, and there's a chance the pins will hold......... Anyone worked on one of these? Any special words of "wisdom" for regulating such a little beastie? Thanks, les bartlett houston- I have to go back, like it or no, because without even asking me, the customer made his check out for more than twenty dollars above what I billed........ I prefer this way to the feeling I'm overcharging.... ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]
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