Hi, Sorry for the delay in forwarding the Staib-Abendschein action drawing to interested parties. The file is ready and is about 70k big but compresses to 12k with Winzip. Thank you, Andrew, for the International Piano Archives at Maryland journal article. It is very informative and a great introduction to Clarence Hickman's (AmPiCo) grand action. I prepared a file for this action as well. Briefly, the action lacks a proper jack or repetition lever; each component is tied to the next so that motion is not transferred only through variably frictive contact profiles. Escapement is accomplished by 'breaking' a one-way articulated member. A second version features manual, global touch control. The Fischer action uploaded by Diane looks interesting; if the repetition spring tied the jack to the hammer it might have been better. <http://content.communities.msn.com/isapi/fetch.dll?action=show_photo&ID_Community=HofstetterPianos&ID_Topic=2&ID_Message=10> The total number of different forms of the Brown action I've seen was brought to 5 as of this afternoon! Clark
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