Gamble, London - Action Maker

[Feg]

Bill

Do you have any dates for actions made by Gamble, London?

Thanks

Fiona

[Bill Kibby]

Certainly, Gamble were making actions by the twenties, for example, a 1928 D'Almaine piano has a Gamble tape check action. As you can read on this site, in 1948, the Gamble action plant, which had been making actions for Bentley pianos for some time, was purchased by Bentley, and the company began making the "Richard Check Action" for its own pianos, named after Richard Grover, sometimes labelled "Richard Gamble Action".

I don't have the date they started, or any number sequences that would date them, but if it is to do with dating a particular piano, there are other options at
http://pianohistory.info/datemarks.html

[Feg]

Thanks, Bill

Fiona