<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: = Verdana" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=rol= e_document face=Verdana color=#000000 size=3> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 3/22/05 8:02:54 AM Pacific Standard Time, kswafford@earthlink.net writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><= FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size= =2>> >"...1931-1938 Haines Bros. Ampico grand piano (4' 8").<BR>>  >It's a late production model with radio knobs instead of the normal <BR>> "B" knobs in the drawer."<BR>><BR>>  Anyone know about= the action in these pix?</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>Jon,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I did some work on one a year and a half ago.  There was a gentlem= an named Greg Debrisay, who peruses this list from time to time, who asked the = list for advice about it.  I went and looked at the piano, and did a bit of regulation to get it playing, and tuning, to make it sound like a musical instrument.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The coolest things were the jig he made to fabricate broken springs, an= d the tool he made to regulate them with.  He bequeathed the tool to me.  I can snap a photo of it and send it along if you're interested.&n= bsp; And I'll bet Greg would be willing to make a few springs.  He's not a p= iano tech, but he's quite crafty when it comes to this sort of thing.  Greg,= are you reading this??</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>If you'd like a photo, I'll dig it the tool out of tool kit "B" (for se= ldom used tools) and snap one for y'all.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Keep on springin',</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Dave Stahl</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>