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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Chapter II. THE PNEUMATIC ACTION. I have already spoken of the operating principles on which the playing action of the piano-playing mechanism depends. In the description given of these principles in Part I, however, I spoke almost entirely of the single system; that wherein one valve is employed to control the pneumatic directly from the tracker- bar. Although the description there given is entirely correct, manufacturers have adopted various modifications in practice, which often considerably alter physical appearance and operating processes. It is necessary therefore to consider this phase of our subject with some care. Just as bellows-systems may be divided into two classes, so a similar two-fold division may be made in the description and classification of pneumatic actions. In fact, the division is here more definite and positive, since it rests upon the difference between the use of one valve to each pneumatic and of two valves for the same purpose. There are, in Pig. 5. Pneumatic Action; Single Valve Ttpe Music Roll. 8. Take-up Spool. 9. Tracker-Bar. 10. Tracker-Tube. 12. Pouch. 13. Vent. Reduced Pressure Chamber. Valve. Pneumatic open. Pneumatic closed. Passage to Bellows-System. Piano Key. Piano Action. Two pneumatics are shown open, and one closed. Valves are in corresponding positions fact, two great divisions in modern practice which rest upon this one difference, and the best inventive thought seems to be almost equally divided between them. As I remarked before, the direct- variation bellows and the single-valve playing action seem to go together, while the converse is true of the other system. Although I do not wish to lay undue stress upon this fact, the reader will appreciate its significance. The two sy...

Instructions On How To Rebuild The Player Piano And Related Instruments.

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