Staib-Abendschein "Mastertouch Action"

[philromano@attglobal.net]

That's the one.

Phil

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Delacour" <JD@Pianomaker.co.uk>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 3:18 PM
Subject: Re: Staib-Abendschein "Mastertouch Action"


> At 8:07 PM -0500 2/1/02, philromano@attglobal.net wrote:
> 
> >Can anyone give me any info (I've already got an email in to Jack 
> >Wyatt. Jack, did you get it?) on a Staib-Abendschein "Mastertouch 
> >Action" and how to go about regulating it? I ran into this unusual 
> >action in an old Becker upright (c. 1927)
> 
> Is that the action with a check lever pivoted on the butt behind the 
> hammer shank with a leaf spring, and with a cushion of the back of 
> the jack to catch the cushion at the bottom of this check lever?
> 
> JD
>