<div>What do you mean by "tied action"?</div>
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<div>This particular Bechstein has a butterfly spring in the wip. I will have to take a look again at the other one I rebuilt to see what kind of wippin it had, I don't remember now.<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 2:44 AM, John Delacour <<a href="mailto:JD@pianomaker.co.uk">JD@pianomaker.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">At 10:19 -0500 18/4/08, Andrew Remillard wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">So...anybody see something like this before? Did Bechstein use a variety of action set ups thought the years? Even going retro as late as the 1920's?<br>
</blockquote><br></div>Yes, and not only Bechstein. I only realized this last year when a colleague sent me the action from a Grotrian for repairs, saying it was from the 1920s. It had a tied action made by a rather mediocre German action maker and I was sure it was from before 1905, because in 1905 Grotrian fitted a a very fine action with capstans that incorporated their own improved method of adjuecting the repetition.<br>
<br>In fact, when I came to see the whole piano, there was no doubt that it was from 1920s, and a month or so later I took in a Bechstein Model C, also from 1923, which has a tied action by Langer of the Schwander B type.<br>
<br>These things are often just a wuestion of fashion. When I started in the trade almost all European makers including Bechstein and Bösendorfer, as well as the Japanese, fitted the Schwander B type action with the long adjustable stpring and the loop on the jack, which Bechstein had used for 80 years. Then suddenly within the space of a few years in the 1980s everybody had switched to the primitive Erard-Herz action as used on the Steinway. Within another short time nearly every maker fitting duplex scaling to the grands.<br>
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