F. Kain & Sohn piano

[John Delacour]

At 8:03 pm -0500 7/2/07, ed440 at mindspring.com wrote:

>What kind of action does it have?  Late Viennese actions can often 
>be much improved by sending the hammers to Abel for recovering.  It 
>is not extremely expensive.

Stuttgart is not in Austria!  The makers's name is KaiM, not Kain, 
and those I have come across have all been quite nice without being 
exceptional.  The piano in the picture looks as if it was made about 
1895-99 and almost certainly has the Erard-Herz type action, quite 
likely manufactured by the Stuttgart firm of Keller, who at that time 
used a spiral spring for the repetition lever.

JD