my first mason hamlin

With great enthusiasm I have completely disassembled the stack of a 1928 Mason Hamlin AA.

The real test is going to be the re-assemble. The piles of whippens and hammers will be replaced with new parts, but the metal pieces will be bead blasted, polished with steel wool, or wire brushed. New sandpaper will be place under the hammers, new let-off buttons will be added, and hopefully it will all look something like this:

For the record this photo is a Steinway stack, on a full action. Quite a week for me, I learned how the sostenuto attaches with the monkey. Which is shown in the above. This sort of knowledge and no one will want to sit next to you at a dinner party. Unless of course it is a group of piano technicians.