<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: Steinway A1 oddity?</title></head><body> <blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><br> <blockquote><font face="Arial">I have an 85 note A in my shop of roughly the same age that also has this<br> 'feature'.  I don't see that there's any reason to prefer the action<br> shifting one way or the other.  I wonder why a right shifting action became<br> the standard?<br> <br> Phil Ford</font><br> </blockquote> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000040">  <font size="+1"> Phil</font></font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times New Roman" size="+1" color="#000040">   Probably so the action wouldn't sit on the return spring but on the stop block when the piano was put on its side for moving. Sound logical?</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times New Roman" size="+1" color="#000040">   Dale</font></blockquote> <div><br></div> <blockquote type="cite" cite><br> Phil,<br> So's the action doesn't bounce around when it's being moved!<br> Best Regards,</blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite>Joe Garrett, RPT, (Oregon)</blockquote> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div>You guys are smart.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Phil Ford</div> </body> </html>