<HTML>List, I know that subject line seems like a bit of an oxymoron, but it's true.=  I worked on a spinet the other day that was at least an attempt to ma= ke a good piano.   It was a 1947 George Steck.  The first interesting thing I noticed = when I took off the music desk was that the lifter wires did not slide into = slots on the ends of the keys.  Instead, there were holes drilled throu= gh the key-ends that the wires poked through.  Lost motion regulation w= as accomplished by turning a round wood nut that was held in place by a cork= nut like you find on many player parts.  My first thought was "how do = you get these out of here without a major hassle and crumbling pieces??" &nb= sp; I opened the bottom to adjust the pedal mechanism, and I found my answer= :  there is a rail with flanges screwed to it iunder the keybed that ha= s lifters to which the lifter wires are attached.  The whippens rest on= a felt platform at the opposite end of each lifter.  So one has to det= ach nothing to get the action out, except the four bracket bolts.   Definitely a better mousetrap, but I'm sure in the end it proved far too= costly to fabricate.  Anybody else ever seen one of these?  I was= also surpised by the lack of false beats in the high treble(though, as usua= l, the bass was torture). Dave Stahl </HTML>