At 11:34 AM 2/15/98 EST, you wrote: >snip> >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. >Karen Johnson Advise her to play with less spirit ! Unless something is restricting the motion of the trapwork requiring extra effort and once overcome. . . Bang. I can't imagine anything though. Jon Page Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~`~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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