[pianotech] New (to me) action

[Ron Nossaman]

On 12/29/2010 11:45 AM, paul bruesch wrote:
> Saved it... thank you, Ron!
>
> That certainly bears very close resemblance to the one I saw yesterday.
> But the patent filing date is 1921. The Kohler & Campbell serial number
> corresponds to a 1905 mfg. date.  The number was on front of the
> keyframe, so I'm not certain it's the piano's serial number, but it's
> the only number I could find anywhere.

The patent isn't for the action, it's for the pianissimo device for the 
already existing action. I posted the patent because it supplied a 
drawing of a Brambach action to head off the next 43 rounds of 
speculation and guessing, like the last time this came up. I don't know 
when the action was first used.


> Forgot to mention earlier that it has one of them there well-functioning
> middle pedals, yup, it raises all them bass dampers at the same time!

Cool! Just like a real piano...
Ron N