<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">And what do those springs do? Simply add more spring in the same manner as the more common coil jack spring?<div><br></div><div>Terry Farrell</div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 30, 2012, at 12:53 PM, <a href="mailto:Byeway222@aol.com">Byeway222@aol.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <meta content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="MSHTML 9.00.8112.16450"> <div style="FONT-FAMILY: Microsoft Sans Serif; COLOR: #4b6a74; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" id="role_body" bottommargin="7" leftmargin="7" rightmargin="7" topmargin="7"><font id="role_document" color="#4b6a74" size="2" face="Microsoft Sans Serif"> <div>Iv'e come across a couple of these over my career and certainly seen them in dealers and auction catlogues.  We had a Ronisch piano at school in Yorkshire identical to this, it seems to have been a classic Art Nouveau style.  One aspect I do appreciate is the peirced top door with cloth on the reverse.  Why on earth piano manufacturers abandoned this principle on upright pianos amazes me.  Upright pianos are traditionally shoved against a wall, have heavy solid panels on the front and the tone is vastly inhibited as a result.  I did see a new Steingraeber upright with a very modern take on this idea however.</div> <div>The extra spring on the jack is quite common on higher end Bechstein actions and on Broadwoods.   You need two small spring hooks to release them for part removal.</div> <div> </div> <div>Richard</div></font></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>