This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/related attachment ------=_NextPart_001_003E_01C5C46F.DA2DDD60 Alan and List These are splendid photos =96 and I hope the moderator will forgive me = if I keep them in this Post in order to make pertinent comments; =20 It was a very late model. Was also marketed under the name of Mahler, = Topic and Cameo =20 =20 This is almost the exact model of Lindner I had. The =93plate=94 was = made like a bit of farm machinery =96 welded tubular steel with the ends blanked = off by plastic plugs. Mine was vertically strung whereas this appears to be overstrung =96 well, you can see the angle of the covered strings = between the action parts in photo 3. The action was held in place by a release = catch. To put the action back in place you just aligned the catches with the catch-plate and firmly pushed both ends in at the same time into lock position. (Mind your fingers when putting it back!) To allow that = keyboard to drop down into the position shown you had first to remove two bolts = and one of the pedal rods which went through a hole in it somewhere! Those = keys were hollow moulded plastic and had push-in dowels at the balance point which had a 7/8=94 x =BC=94 clock spring inserted! This was the key return-cum-balance pin! Of course, the bottom end was fixed into another = one of those =91R=92 shaped mouldings which, in turn, were a push-fit into = the pressed steel =91U=92 channel balance rail in the tubular steel framed = key frame. This allowed those keys to be slid along that channel for = alignment. I don=92t know if you can see this but =96 on the touch end of the key = there are two white plastic bolts for each key. They are the touch adjustment and = are adjusted for depth of touch from the top and for touch from under the keyboard! You can better see that in the next photo. =20 =20 =20 Just look at the economy of materials here. Those levers/whippens are bifurcated (with tin snips, possibly!) to provide the check-wire and = bridle wire. And just look at those tape-ends! They=92re plastic caps which = push on the check wire. Not tape either =96 its string! You can just about make = out the lever =93flange=94 =96 it was =91R=92 in cross section and pushed = into the exruded aluminium action frame. It was the toe of the =91R=92 which broke off = and made the whole design redundant. =20 Now that=92s what I call a butt spring with a difference! You won=92t = get those off the shelf! That entire butt, balance hammer and balance hammer shank have been reduced into one plastic moulding. Ingenious! No screws to = hold that flange in place, they were push fit into that extruded action = frame. This method in turn gave complete control over hammer alignment with the strings. Likewise the damper alignment. You just shoved them along! Just = a finishing note here=85. That hammer and shank are, apart from the pin = block, the only wood parts in the piano. The case is veneered chipboard =96 so there=92s some wood there also. =20 Thanks for allowing me down memory lane, Alan =20 AF ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Michael <mailto:michael@gambles.fsnet.co.uk> Gamble=20 To: 'David Ilvedson' <mailto:ilvey@sbcglobal.net> ; pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 9:52 PM Subject: RE: Info on Rippen Upright... =20 David =96 you=92ll have to ask Joe Garrett to sort his out. He says = it=92s buried somewhere among his souvenirs=85 no he didn=92t actually say that! But = he says he=92s got one somewhere=85 FWIW I never noticed =93Rippen=94 marked = anywhere on that Irish Potato. Regards Michael G.(UK) =20 =20 ------=_NextPart_001_003E_01C5C46F.DA2DDD60 An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/b9/5b/54/da/attachment.htm ------=_NextPart_001_003E_01C5C46F.DA2DDD60-- ---------------------- multipart/related attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 26355 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/48/c7/94/d7/attachment.jpe ---------------------- multipart/related attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 20766 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/86/a0/65/0a/attachment.jpe ---------------------- multipart/related attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 85402 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/fb/00/8b/56/attachment.jpe ---------------------- multipart/related attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 26039 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/7a/32/f0/f8/attachment.jpe ---------------------- multipart/related attachment--
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