<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4134.600" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=#000080>Dear jfreel88,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080>We may be able to help....</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080>I think we still have an action from a = Kimball upright of about that age up in the storeroom. The piano it came from (it's been = torn down years ago) was about 56" tall and was an ex-player. The casework of = this piano was identical to that of their conventional upright--that is, the = overall size of the piano was no larger than Kimball's conventional piano--and the action configuration was similar, if not identical. = </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080>Give me the following information and I'll = try to determine if the action I have (assuming I still have it!) will fit:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080>    --  The overall = height of the action brackets from the lower foot or ball up to the action bracket = bolt. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080>    --  The number of = unisons in each section.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080>    --  The scale stick measurements--that is the distance from A-1 to the last hammer of the = bass section, from there to the first hammer of the tenor, from there to the = last hammer of the tenor, etc. These measurements should be = chained.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080>Del</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080></FONT><FONT = color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV>----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000080 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=JFreel88@AOL.COM = href="mailto:JFreel88@AOL.COM">JFreel88@AOL.COM</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=PIANOTECH@ptg.org href="mailto:PIANOTECH@ptg.org">PIANOTECH@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> August 21, 2002 7:09 = PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> KIMBALL UPRIGHT ACTION = (long) </DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0 = face=Tahoma size=4 FAMILY="SANSSERIF">Hello from Sunny Florida,<BR>I just finished = tuning a Baldwin Howard spinet today.  The customer has a beautiful = Kimball upright in a restored oak case.  She had a tuner from out of town = take her action & her money to repair in shop.  The tuner called = & told her the story that his car was stolen with the action in = it.  This was several years ago.   She is heartbroken and wanted to = see if we could find a kimball 1913 upright action that would work? please = e-mail any helpfull info.<BR>jfreel88@aol.com</FONT> = </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>