<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div>David!<br /> Please get the filth out of future posts! (I was eating.) And a vacuum won't do. (Only a real air compressor, from the photos.) I slide actions into bicycle boxes and then take them to the tyre store (Anglish) when they're this filthy, and blow them out, outside, with about 150 PSI if I don't have my A.C. with me. And please wear a mask and goggles! Breathing this stuff (or having it enter the mucousy membranes around eyeballs) will quickly render you into a subhumanoid life form most unpalatable to your spouse! (If you have one. Plugging your ears with something's a good idea, too, when dealing with such.)<br /> And, Dear Sir, I regret to inform you that you have conflated 2 American classic cartoons: the "Tom and Jerry" cartoon (MGM) featuring H.R. #2, and the "Bugs Bunny" cartoon (Warner Brothers) also featuring this
great Liszt piece. Please be aware that we take our cartoons very seriously, here!!!<br /><br />Cordially,<br /> Thumpe</div></td></tr></table> <div id="_origMsg_">
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Re: [pianotech] Curiously curvaceous repetition lever <br>
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<font face="Arial">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.<br>
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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).<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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When I played the piano it felt to me a bit like it had a D-Type
Spring & Loop action. Not very "poised". <br>
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Best regards,<br>
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David.<br>
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