<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" = http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2314.1000" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>Del,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks for the info.  I  will try to track them down via = the embassy and our local Austrade before I ask you to look up old records.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Once again, Thanks</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Tony Caught ICPTG Australia<BR><A href="mailto:caute@optusnet.com.au">caute@optusnet.com.au</A></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: = 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Tony,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>This was probably the Saito action.  Mr Saito = developed several interesting variations on the upright action theme = and one of them was a relatively simple una corda system.  It consisted = basically of a separate rail holding the damper flanges with the dampers being = actuated by lift lever/wire mechanism similar to that found on the grand.  I = briefly examined a model a few years back and would like to have pursued it = further but the company I worked for at the time was not at all interested.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>I'm not sure the Saito company is still in = business.  I recall that the guiding light of the company was the elderly gentleman = I was corresponding with who I think died not all that long later.  If = it is no longer around it is the piano industry's loss.  There are = precious few innovative thinkers actively working on the piano action -- grand or = upright -- we need all of them.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Somewhere in my records I probably have there = address from the 1980s.  If you <EM>really </EM>need it I can probably find it = somewhere.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Del</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>