F. Kain & Sohn piano

[Gregor _]

Kaim from Stuttgart (yes, Germany, not Austria). They invented the Cantator, 
but I can´t exactly remember what that was. They told us in the class about 
the patented Kaim-Cantator and I think it has something to do with a very 
special soundboard construction. But I think this invention came in the 20´s 
or so. Your grand seems to be too old for that cantator thing, whatever it 
was.

Gregor


>From: John Delacour <JD at Pianomaker.co.uk>
>Reply-To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
>To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
>Subject: Re: F. Kain & Sohn piano
>Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 08:33:45 +0000
>
>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
>
>
>
>

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