Cable

45" Cable Upright #282614
Exotic light wood veneer cabinet. Built in 1928. Restored by Ray's Piano Service in 2009.

IMPROVEMENTS COMPLETED:
Rebuild—Dismantle. Remove strings, pins, plate. Replace bass bridge. Repair and refinish sound board and treble bridges. Re-install plate. Install new strings and pins. Rebuild pedal mechanisms.
Recondition Action—Clean. Install new hammers, shanks, butts, whippens, and damper felts.
Complete Regulation—Install new underkey punchings. Make adjustments to ensure that piano plays like new: key height, key levelling, hammer blow distance, lost motion, letoff, sustain, spoons. Tune to A-440

Ornate front post carving

Music rest inlaid carving

Panels removed

Action on bench

Selected pictures of the evaluation and improvement process
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Keys in storage

Piano on tilter for dismantling

Remove strings and pins

Remove sample hammers & butts

Scraping soundboard

Bass bridge cracks

Removing bridge cap

New bridge cap glued

Drilll bridge pin holes

Scrub plate

Re-install plate

Repin bass bridge

Restring tenor

Remove dampers

Replace whippens

Replace butts, shanks & hammers

Install odd-numbered hammers

All hammers installed

Assemble keybed bottom beam

Rebuild pedal mechanisms

Install new casters, bottom board

Action reconditioning

Install damper levers

New underkey punchings

Clean keys

One section at a time

Leveling white keys

Leveling sharps

Regulating key dip

Regulating backchecks

Installing bass damper felts

Replace worn key bushings

Align capstans to whippens

Several tunings

Ready for delivery!

Original Manufacturer of this brand-name--The Cable Piano Company.

Established--1880 by H.D. Cable in New York, NY.

Other brand-names used by this manufacturer--Conover, Cable, Kingsbury, Wellington, Schiller.

Other manufacturers of this brand-name--Aeolian, Winter & Co., Gibson Guitars (2001-present).

From: Pierce Piano Atlas, 12th Edition (2008, Larry Ashley Publisher, Albuquerque, NM).

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