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  • 1.  1917 Steinway repetition with assist spring

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 01-13-2023 08:25
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    Greetings,

    1917 Steinway model A grand piano. The repetitions (AKA wippens) have assist springs on their flanges (see attached image).

    If someone retrofitted them, they did a factory-quality install, yet did so on reps that are old enough to not have regulating screws in the jacks. (We are planning on replacement with WNG parts, withOUT assist springs.)

    I have never seen assist springs on Steinway repetitions as original configuration. Has anyone else?

    Thanks,

    Alan

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    Alan Eder, RPT
    Herb Alpert School of Music
    California Institute of the Arts
    Valencia, CA
    661.904.6483
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  • 2.  RE: 1917 Steinway repetition with assist spring

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 01-14-2023 10:51

    I have seen them at least once, on a Hamburg made O.  Can't recall the year, but I know it was not a new piano when the family that owned it fled Germany ahead of WW2.  The piano turned up after the war, and the family took it to S America where they had settled, and eventually brought it to the US.

    Ken




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  • 3.  RE: 1917 Steinway repetition with assist spring

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 01-15-2023 18:53
    Alan: you might want to check with David Stanwood. I think he got the idea for adding wippen springs from a Hamburg Steinway

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    David Graham,RPT
    Graham Piano Service, Inc
    Sycamore IL 60178
    815-353-5450
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