Mignon Piano Information

[Maxpiano@AOL.COM]

I used to tune a gutted player grand with the name "Welte-Mignon" for a 
customer who fortunately no longer has it.  It was in rough shape.  This 
particular piano was obviously of American manufacture and had an unusual 
Wessell, Nickel & Gross action with the backchecks mounted on auxiliary 
wippens.  The body of the piano was unusually thick (top to bottom) 
apparently to allow the pneumatic stack to be mounted inside the action 
cavity.  I think it had dowel capstans.  Welte-Mignon was the name of the 
third major style of reproducing mechanism (after Duo-Art and Ampico).

Bill Maxim