Blüthner with una corda

[John Delacour]

At 18:52 +0100 4/4/08, Richard Brekne wrote:

>From the looks of the two pics... it doesnt look to me like it would 
>be alllll that difficult to retrofit most any piano with an una 
>corda.

No, it is easy.  I have several in the pipeline I intend to convert.

>  Certainly separating the damper rail would be easy enough... The 
>sideways shift could be accomplished in a number of ways since the 
>actual required movement is small... you dont have any pics of this 
>from the piano below do you ?

I omitted to take pictures of the shift arrangement on the Blüthner. 
On the Brinsmead the mahogany action standards have a female V 
cut-out at the bottom, like many pianos and this slides on a 
blackleaded male V block screwed to the key bottom.  The lever is 
very simple.

JD