<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">   Delwin D Fandrich wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE> <blockquote style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000080 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">Hello list, Just got through tuning a 200 cm Bechstein grand built in 1891.  All in all, it was a pretty sweet sounding piano.  Except for the action.  It's a viennese type action, and it's noisy.  I guess that's the nature of the beast. I am curious if anyone can point me to information regarding the regulation of these actions.  The capstan arrangement seems unnecessarily complex.  And how does one align the jack to the knuckle?  Didn't have time to mess around with it, but I'm very curious about this piano.  And has anyone come up with a way to quiet the actions a bit?  </blockquote>  I'm sure the restorers among us won't approve but the last one we did got a new keyset and Renner action stack. The owner is thrilled with his "new" piano. Del</blockquote> Nothing inherently wrong with this as far as I can tell... as long as all is up front and there are no pretentions of this being anything else then a "new" piano as you say.  Its not a restored piano... its a rebuilt one. Thats cool :) RicB -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway <A HREF="mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no">mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no</A> <A HREF="http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html">http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html</A> <A HREF="http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html">http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html</A>   </body> </html>