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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT face="Book Antiqua">An interesting
puzzle there Mark</FONT>. </FONT><FONT face="Book Antiqua">The first image
wouldn’t look normal to me until after a few beers (harmless tease intended) but
what I can pull out of it is that it looks like metal and is lockable in the
open position by tightening the screw that lines up with the small notch.
The second image blows away the “made of metal” part of the previous sentence
since it looks to be about a quarter of an inch thick and made of wood.
>From there I go to the odd shape of the end of it. It looks like it was
fitted/shaped to accept an item of some sort. Assuming it’s a support for
a fitted/mated addition (that’s missing) here’s my input on these intriguing
brackets/supports/pivoted items. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Book Antiqua">SWAG’s (silly wild ass guesses)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Book Antiqua">A stick of wood the length of the distance
betwixt the two with fabric attached draped down to keep legs warm</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Book Antiqua">A removable wrist rest for playing sleepy slow
moving hymns (church services taught me how to sleep sitting upright, not a good
idea with a steering wheel in your lap)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Book Antiqua">a missing keyboard guide for self taught music
lessons available by mail order in weekly installments</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Book Antiqua">This last one requires a story I’ve collected
through the years of my piano owner’s contacts. I was called to service a
piano for a lady that had just moved into a elder care facility and there were
stacks and stacks of sheet music and small music books everywhere throughout the
living space. She glowingly recalled the days of her youth in a logging
community that is barely still on the maps nearby. Her dad would spend the
week working the trees and walk back home tired and stinky to be with his family
for the weekend. Her sister was taking piano lessons from a teacher paid
by the local school district to come by once a week and guide the student, her
sister, through the weekly lessons received through the mail. Her sister
never did well with the piano but my customer taught herself how to play by
listening to the teacher from another room and using her sister’s weekly
lessons. This was frowned upon heavily by the school district and they
were warned of punishment of some kind if it was ever discovered.
Interesting how she ended up playing the piano quite well for decades to follow
while her sister never did.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Book Antiqua">I’m curious to hear of your progress on this one
Mark.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">>From an 1884 Vose & Sons upright.
Attaches under the keybed - one at each end <BR>(see closed position photo) .
Each pivots outward to extend beyond keybed (open <BR>position photo). Does
anyone know what purpose these serve? I can't conjure up <BR>a decent
guess...<BR><BR>Mark Potter</FONT><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>