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G'day once more, Pianoguy. It has a dropped action, but a bit different from either of those shown in Reblitz (second edition). I find that the action has to come out to allow practically any regulating adjustment to be made, so it's been in and out many times, and of course the drop action adds 88 ...

Pianoguy, thanks for your input. I thought there might be a bit of contempt for this "spinet", but it's appearance is nostalgically rather "Festival of Britain", the rosewood case is almost unmarked and quite pretty (if you ignore the ridiculous cabriole legs), and the Schwander ...

Having acquired a moth-ravaged but otherwise remarkably well-preserved John Brinsmead and Sons upright (s/n 85840, which seems to put it in the 1950s), after replacing the various bits of missing felt (fortunately the hammers and backchecks were ok), I discovered that the bass bridge is cracked for ...

Barrie, encouraged by your comment about regulation, I re-read Reblitz on the subject carefully a couple of times. Before starting on the 24 steps of regulation I attended to the rollers. Rather than replacing them immediately, I tried "bolstering" rollers of the middle 2 1/2 octaves. Inst...

G'day Barrie Once more, thank you so much for your helpful advice. I appreciate that a lot of this stuff must look obvious to eperienced professionals, but as stated previously, I am an amateur and proceding with caution on unfamiliar ground. To Bill Kibby: I spoke to three local piano technicians w...

G'day Barrie Once again, thank you for your great response. I think I've pretty well got the hang of this thing now. Could I just clarify a couple of points? By 'stack', I take it that you mean the whole action including hammers, wippen/jack assemblies, the three rails (hammer butt, hammer rest and ...

Barrie,thank you for your input. Am I correct in assuming that before I can lift out any of the key levers I must first do the following: 1. Unscrew and remove the hammer butt rail and hammers 2. Unscrew all the wippen flanges from the wippen rail 3. Unscrew and remove the wippen rail ? Fortunately ...

Gill, thank you for your prompt reply. I am having difficulty identifying the bits to which you refer, however. I should have made it clear that I am talking about a grand, whereas perhaps you are talking about an upright. There doesn't seem to be anything plugged into the key lever other than the b...

I can not see how to disassemble this action. It looks as if the hammer butt rail and hammers would come off simply by unscrewing the butt rail from its supporting posts (assuming that the dovetail joints have not been glued). It appears that the wippen rail could slide out sideways once unscrewed f...