Heavy pedal

Keith McGavern kam544@ionet.net
Fri, 13 Mar 1998 11:03:40 -0600 (CST)


>...Any suggestions on how to lighten the pedal feel would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Don Price
>dcp@sosinc.net

Something's binding somewhere.  You didn't mention the pedal mechanism
itself.  It should be secure, but completely free in it's movement in the
lyre.

You can have an accumulative effect as well, a little bit here, a little
bit there, all add up to what your customer is indicating.  The cloth
bushing that the brass pedal rod (from the pedal to the trap lever) runs
through.  The brass damper lift dowel definitely can drag through that long
cloth bushing ion the keybed, which usually gunks up over time, and it
doesn't necessarily lift the damper tray in a straight line either.  The
underlever tray action centers is another source.

Some ideas anyway.

Keith A. McGavern
kam544@ionet.net
Registered Piano Technician
Oklahoma Chapter 731
Piano Technicians Guild
USA




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