And if any action work is called for, be prepared for rocker capstans to regulate hammer height. I tune one of them that's been partially restored....beautiful sounding instrument, despite a bevy of false-beating at the high treble. Dave Stahl -----Original Message----- From: JWyatt1492 at aol.com To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 09:13:35 EDT Subject: Re: 7-foot Bechstein Hello Paul, Yes! they are. The plate is bad about breaking on old Bechsteins, especially near the pins, I service and repair many old pianos I always have my customers sign a disclaimer concerning this problem. Regards, Jack Wyatt -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20060407/6ca13953/attachment.html
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