<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> 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. 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). 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. 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. When I played the piano it felt to me a bit like it had a D-Type Spring & Loop action. Not very "poised".  Best regards, David. </body> </html>