---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Delwin D Fandrich wrote: > Hello list, > > Just got through tuning a 200 cm Bechstein grand built in > 1891. All in all, it was a pretty sweet sounding piano. > Except for the action. It's a viennese type action, and > it's noisy. I guess that's the nature of the beast. > > I am curious if anyone can point me to information regarding > the regulation of these actions. The capstan arrangement > seems unnecessarily complex. And how does one align the > jack to the knuckle? Didn't have time to mess around with > it, but I'm very curious about this piano. And has anyone > come up with a way to quiet the actions a bit? > > > I'm sure the restorers among us won't approve but the last one we did > got a new keyset and Renner action stack. The owner is thrilled with > his "new" piano. Del Nothing inherently wrong with this as far as I can tell... as long as all is up front and there are no pretentions of this being anything else then a "new" piano as you say. Its not a restored piano... its a rebuilt one. Thats cool :) RicB -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/37/14/b9/e9/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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