Patent ID: 7718872
Filing Date: 2010-05-18
Classification: G10C

Abstract:
1. An improved device for providing the magic touch effect during a double repetition in an upright piano including a plurality of piano strings, said device comprising a plurality of keys, swingably mounted on a keyboard frame, each said key supporting, an anticlockwise inclined adjustable substantially cylindrical drive element, coupled to a slanted swinging arm operating as a first escapement lever, pivoted to a main swinging bridge assembly which operatively swings with said first escapement lever coupled to a butt roller of a hammer pivoted to a first pillar element, said main swinging bridge assembly being anticlockwise downward inclined with respect to a horizontal line, said first pillar element supporting a plurality of adjusting buttons for adjusting a first and second escapement, a second pillar element coupled to said main swinging bridge assembly, a second escapement lever pivoted to said second pillar element, said second escapement lever supporting an adjusting button for adjusting an operating angle of said second escapement lever also supporting an adjusting button, said drive element comprising screw adjusting means and an ogival end portion engageable in a concave contour seat defined at a bottom end portion of said swinging arm, said main swinging bridge assembly supporting a first hammer checker not affected by said second escapement lever, said second escapement lever having a S-shape configuration and cooperating with a second hammer checker clamped to a tail portion of said hammer, each said key having a side slot for housing a black key and comprising a round tip housed in a guide slot, said first escapement lever being substantially upward elongated and having an angled tail portion abutting on a felt element applied to a button of said first escapement, said device further comprises a further felt element, applied to a hammer bearing bar, adapted to operate as an end of stroke element for a hammer rod, said second pillar element pivotably supporting a V-shape spring operating between said first escapement lever and said second escapement lever, said, device also comprising a damping assembly for damping a sound of a said piano string, said damping assembly comprising a crank lever to end portions of which are respectively coupled a first and second metal spoon elements cooperating with an end portion of the key and a bottom portion of a swinging damping lever, said damping lever supporting an end felt element operating on a piano string, wherein each said hammer has a coupling hammer butt supporting, at a side end portion thereof and by gluing, a hammer tail portion, upward clockwise slanted, which comprises the hammer catcher with its bottom end portion downward directed and rigid with said tail portion by a metal arm, said damping device being pivoted to the pin of the pillar element being driven during the movement of a sliding wheel pivoted to a pivot pin of a metal fork which, in its movement portion, operates on a wedge element clamped to the bottom end portion of the damping assembly which can be screw adjusted; as the key imparts its energy, said slanted swinging arm, urging said main bridge assembly, operating, through said first escapement lever and second escapement lever, below the hammer butt roller.