Bechstein rebuild

[Andrew Remillard]

What do you mean by "tied action"?

This particular Bechstein has a butterfly spring in the wip.  I will have to
take a look again at the other one I rebuilt to see what kind of wippin it
had, I don't remember now.

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 2:44 AM, John Delacour <JD at pianomaker.co.uk> wrote:

> At 10:19 -0500 18/4/08, Andrew Remillard wrote:
>
> So...anybody see something like this before? Did Bechstein use a variety
> > of action set ups thought the years? Even going retro as late as the 1920's?
> >
>
> Yes, and not only Bechstein.  I only realized this last year when a
> colleague sent me the action from a Grotrian for repairs, saying it was from
> the 1920s.  It had a tied action made by a rather mediocre German action
> maker and I was sure it was from before 1905, because in 1905 Grotrian
> fitted a a very fine action with capstans that incorporated their own
> improved method of adjuecting the repetition.
>
> In fact, when I came to see the whole piano, there was no doubt that it
> was from 1920s, and a month or so later I took in a Bechstein Model C, also
> from 1923, which has a tied action by Langer of the Schwander B type.
>
> These things are often just a wuestion of fashion.  When I started in the
> trade almost all European makers including Bechstein and Bösendorfer, as
> well as the Japanese, fitted the Schwander B type action with the long
> adjustable stpring and the loop on the jack, which Bechstein had used for 80
> years.  Then suddenly within the space of a few years in the 1980s everybody
> had switched to the primitive Erard-Herz action as used on the Steinway.
>  Within another short time nearly every maker fitting duplex scaling to the
> grands.
>
> JD
>
>


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