Soft pedal reply

[pianoman]

Hi Karen,
		She must really be pouncing on that soft pedal.  The soft pedal is not
supposed to be a catapult.  Get her to go slower on the downtravel.
James Grebe
R.P.T. of the P.T.G. from St. Louis
pianoman@inlink.com
"I'm on my way towards the mighty light of knowledge".

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> From: Kgj38@aol.com
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Soft pedal
> Date: Sunday, February 15, 1998 10:34 AM
> 
> As I was sitting in church this morning, listening to the prelude, the
pianist
> comes up to me and asks me to look at the piano after the service,
because
> there was something wrong with the soft pedal.
> 
> She is a rather vigorous player and when she would depress the soft
pedal, the
> hammers would fly up, striking the strings with some force, instead of
just
> lessening the hammer strike distance.
> 
> The piano is a Baldwin console, not sure of the age, in pretty good
repair.
> When I depressed the pedal, the hammers didn't fly up.  I had to push
pretty
> hard to get it to do that for me.  I tried tightening and then loosening
the
> wingnut down on the pedal assembly, with no discernible effect either
way.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Karen Johnson
> Rochester, MN