<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 = http-equiv=Content-Type><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 = HTML//EN"> <META content='"MSHTML 4.72.3007.2"' name=GENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>Hola Jon I take it, that the wire witht he felt on the = tip is to lift the >damper. Right, The damper assembly is on top, and = those wires lift the dampers >how does the hammer pivot? On = the back, attached to the key bed there is an assembly which acts as the escape = system, it is attached to the keybed by a very thin sheet of wood which = allows them to bounce from back to front. The escape system is on top and is = shaped in such a way that at rest it slides on top of the lower part that you = see at the bottom of the hammer, when you press the key the hammer will lift = until it slides out. As i dont have the precise vocabulary I am sending you = a drawing I hope you understand it. The braking assembly is mounted on = a transversal piece of wood and stops the hammer at a = shoulder. After seeing the action, I feel this is not even a piano, it seems to = be what they used to call Forte Piano. > >If the tuning pins are = tigh, what needs to be restored? >Especially if no one plays it? = ? Wrong, my clients daughter is taking piano lessons on this piano !!! I = proposed them to clean all the piano, it has a lot of rust on the tunning pins = and strings, the keys in the centre and front they used leather = instead of felt, but it is so old that is wrinkled and cracked so it has a lot of side = play in the keyboard. Somewhere in time someone took the piano and = VARNISHED IT !!.. The only thing that bothers me is that when I see a piano = like this one, and the people accepts it, I like to replace everithyng with = original parts or at least use a technique similar to the one used on those = days, that is why, if I can find out when was the piano made, then I can use a simmilar procedure to repair it. > >Jon Page > > </DIV></BODY></HTML>