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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Subj:<B>innovative upright action </B><BR>
Date:6/18/2002 3:56:19 PM Pacific Standard Time<BR>
From:<A HREF="mailto:ANRPiano@AOL.COM">ANRPiano@AOL.COM</A></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000040" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000040" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></I> Yes I have seen one like this and it did indeed act like a repitition spring. !890s as I recall.<BR>
My friend Wade Muncy still owns it I think and it's STILL unrestored. Built like a battleship it is.<BR>
Dale<BR>
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I had a customer bring by the action of the piano he is refinishing. He <BR>
wanted me to replace the bridal straps, dampers, etc. This action includes <BR>
one very unique feature which I, in my limited experience, (15 years) do not <BR>
remember seeing before except on a certain west coast action. There is a <BR>
spring connecting the jack and hammer butt to speed the return of the jack <BR>
under the butt. The spring is about the length and shape of the hammer <BR>
return spring and it is connected to the butt by means of a silk thread <BR>
attached behind the jack felt on the butt. There is also a slot in the jack <BR>
for the silk to pass through in order to connect to the spring. At the bass <BR>
of the jack is a spring tensioner. The piano is a Chickering Bros. (the <BR>
Chicago branch of the family) apparently from the early part of the century.<BR>
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BTW from the best I could tell this system worked as I imagined it was <BR>
intended to work. The jack did reset before the hammer returned to a full <BR>
rest.<BR>
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Has anyone seen one of these before? I have seen a number of Chickering <BR>
Bros. pianos and they all seem to be well built, often with "unique" <BR>
features. It seems the experimentation bug was genetic.<BR>
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Andrew Remillard</BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
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