F. Kain & Sohn piano

[ed440 at mindspring.com]

I know that much geography.  Are you saying that the "Viennese Action" was never used on pianos built outside of Austria?
Ed S.

-----Original Message-----
>From: John Delacour <JD at Pianomaker.co.uk>
>Sent: Feb 8, 2007 3:33 AM
>To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
>Subject: Re: F. Kain & Sohn piano
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>At 8:03 pm -0500 7/2/07, ed440 at mindspring.com wrote:
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>>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.
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>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.
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>JD
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