I was away for the afternoon and just got in to look at all these great comments! Thanks for taking the time. I appreciate it. Michael assumed from my other comment that the spinet is in my shop. No. It is in a customer home. I would have been more courageous if it had been in the shop. Patrick's comments help reinforce the thought that I was wise in applying the principle of "do no harm" here. I backed away quickly after the action refused to budge, so I didn't examine the action. But I believe he is correct that it is of good design, with capstans at the key ends, because there was a superstructure in front of the action rail, which I assume now supported action centers above the capstan row. Interesting. The only spinet action I had previously examined did indeed have forks and drop rods. I can see that would be a total nightmare to remove. Thanks all for your insights. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100320/d189e16f/attachment.htm>
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