faster whippen - Fandrich

[Cy Shuster]

John,

Here's a picture of the Fandrich vertical una corda shift (tray?  Where's 
Newton when we need him...), from one of his first series, about 1993:
http://www.ptg.org/files/2006/08/2.jpg

--Cy--

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Delacour" <JD at Pianomaker.co.uk>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2006 2:39 PM
Subject: Re: faster whippen - Fandrich


> At 1:31 pm -0600 26/8/06, Cy Shuster wrote:
>
>>...Another interesting feature is the una corda shift.  Since there's no 
>>lost motion (shanks rest above the hammer rest rail, like a grand), the 
>>hammers are pushed closer to the strings by simply lifting the backs of 
>>the keys, with a piece of wood like a damper tray underneath them.  So to 
>>set key height, you simply turn a wing nut on the threaded rod connecting 
>>the pedal rod to the tray.  Very convenient!
>
> Ah.  There's no sign of this feature in the pictures I saw here: 
> <http://www.dreams.org/staff/composer/music/piano/fandrich-action/>. So 
> all the keys move down when you press the half-blow pedal?  Rather 
> disconcerting in my experience, for certain old uprights do have 
> forward-weighted keys.

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> JD