[pianotech] Fwd: Nordiska action bracket

[Paul McCloud]

Sorry, Nordiska is no longer made.  Baldwin purchased the factory where they were made.  Not saying you couldn't maybe find a bracket that works from another brand, but I'm not sure how you would get parts or know if there were other pianos using the same parts.  I'd call some reps and see what they say.  Geneva International, the original importer, no longer deals in pianos.
The dealer I worked for carried Nordiska.  I've not seen this kind of problem with them.  
Paul McCloud
San Diego  

----- Original Message -----
From: tnrwim at aol.com
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 8:05:15 PM
Subject: [pianotech] Fwd: Nordiska action bracket


Worked on Nordiska Studio this afternoon. The complaint was the notes were ringing. Sure enough, as if the damper pedal was too tight. But when I loosed it, notes were still ringing. I found that there was no lost motion with the damper levers when the notes were being played. The dampers were just barely on the strings, but not enough to dampen them. 

I questioned the customer if the last technician had done more than a tuning, or made any adjustments to the action, She said no. Although her husband moved the piano from one side of the room to the other on a dolly, that should not have had any effect on the spoons. 

But here is the strangest thing that happened. When I started to remove the action to adjust the spoons, the middle bracket was broken. (see attached picture), and the one on the right was very difficult to get off. But it gets even more strange. The material of the broken bracket is the same as the old Young Chang brackets. 

A couple of months ago I asked if anyone had run into upright action brackets that had grown, like the grand actions. But no one responded. Here is a case where I suspect the reason the spoons were out of adjustment is because of a growing action bracket problem. But I can't figure out why.. Any one with a possible answer? 

For now, can anyone tell me who makes Nordiska, or who the distributor is, so I can get another bracket. 


Wim 

PS I adjusted the spoons and the pedal and tuned the piano, and even without a middle bracket, the piano is working fine.