Stéphane, Ric et al: I own a 1911 Rönisch with buckskin covered tails, and I have seen a few more. I can't say how standard this feature was, but they obviously did it in a good number of pianos over quite a period of time. My hammers were badly worn and needed replacement, but for sake of originality and to preserve the good checking this allows I decided to have he hammers re-felted, and have been quite happy with the results. I am a bit surprised that your piano seems to be cheaply made, Stéphane. Rönisch were known to have excellent designs and workmanship, right up there with Förster, Feurich and others. Perhaps in the 1920s things were already in serious decline... regards, Jurgen Goering Piano Forte Supply (250) 754-2440 info at pianofortesupply.com http://www.pianofortesupply.com On Jan 2, 2007, at 10:10, pianotech-request at ptg.org wrote: > > Hei Stéphane > I cant say that I have run into this arrangement before and I'd be > very curious to hear if anyone else has and what their experience with > it is. You say the thing checks not only quietly but solidly under > all levels of play ? > Cheers > RicB > > Hi Ric. > > Here is a pic of that Rönish checking arrangement. The piano is > from the 1920 and I have no reason to believe that what you see is > not original. Yet, see the condition of the leather ! And this is > in the tenor section, where you usually have the parts worn out. > And the noise to catch strength ratio is the best I have ran across. > > Curiously enough, the rest of the piano is kind of cheap. > > Best regards. > > Stéphane Collin. > > Url : > > https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070102/c09265cc/ > attachment-0001.jpg -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 1745 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070102/95e160cd/attachment.bin
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