Stephen! Thank you! I take it Spillane wasn't writing in the 21st century ... Susan At 09:02 PM 6/13/2005 -0400, you wrote: >Edwin Brown of Brown & Hallet, ex-Chickering shop apprentice. After >patenting his action design in 1843 he went back to chickering as foreman. >According to Spillane he is "still alive at the venerable age of 84". ;-) > >Image of the Brown grand action at the bottom of this webpage >http://real.uwaterloo.ca/%7Esbirkett/piano%20action.htm >Click on the image for expanded detail. > >Stephen >-- >Dr Stephen Birkett, Associate Professor >Department of Systems Design Engineering >University of Waterloo, Waterloo ON Canada N2L 3G1 >Director, Waterloo Piano Systems Group >Associate Member, Piano Technician's Guild > >E3 Room 3158 >tel: 519-888-4567 Ext. 3792 >fax: 519-746-4791 >PianoTech Lab Room E3-3160 Ext. 7115 >mailto: sbirkett[at]real.uwaterloo.ca >http://real.uwaterloo.ca/~sbirkett >_______________________________________________
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