---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment In a message dated 4/30/03 10:09:25 PM Central Daylight Time, Piannaman@aol.com writes: > It was a 1947 George Steck. The first interesting thing I noticed when I > took off the music desk was that the lifter wires did not slide into slots > on the ends of the keys. Instead, there were holes drilled through the > key-ends that the wires poked through. Lost motion regulation was > accomplished by turning a round wood nut that was held in place by a cork > nut like you find on many player parts. My first thought was "how do you > get these out of here without a major hassle and crumbling pieces??" > > I opened the bottom to adjust the pedal mechanism, and I found my answer: > there is a rail with flanges screwed to it iunder the keybed that has > lifters to which the lifter wires are attached. The whippens rest on a > felt platform at the opposite end of each lifter. So one has to detach > nothing to get the action out, except the four bracket bolts. > > Definitely a better mousetrap, but I'm sure in the end it proved far too > costly to fabricate. Anybody else ever seen one of these? I was also > surpised by the lack of false beats in the high treble(though, as usual, > the bass was torture). > > Dave Stahl > > I had one of these, too. I had to replace all the leather grommets under the wood dowels. What a pain in the..... Wim ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/b6/2f/9e/86/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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