[pianotech] Curiously curvaceous repetition lever

[David Boyce]

Thanks for all your responses folks.  I was asked to examine this piano 
with a vew to doing a bit of work on it.  I only had my smartphone 
camera, and not too much time as they had visitors arriving.  I expect 
to be working on the piano and will take lots more photos.

Dale, I do love the suggestion about the musical mice. How I'd love to 
hear their charming little sonatas.  (I cannot hear Liszt's Hungarian 
rhapsody number 2 now without hearing the extra things in it from the 
wonderful Bugs Bunny version with the mouse).

Don, I can't tell you how I was itching to get the vacuum out the car 
and suck out all that dust and old mildew there and then!  The 
soundboard is filthy too, and the funny thing is, they paid a lot of 
money to have the case re-finished some years ago.

The jacks do indeed have loops  attached to them and the repetition 
spring has a hook on the end that engages with the loop.  Not unlike a 
Herrburger Brooks grand action, but with the long spring running 
underneath the wippen, instead of above it inside the wippen/repetition 
assembly.

When I played the piano it felt to me a bit like it had a D-Type Spring 
& Loop action. Not very "poised".

Best regards,

David.
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