Dear List: I usually avoid working on player pianos, but I got sucked into this one. It is a Melodigrand upright player, with an apparently well rebuilt player mechanism. New hammers were hung on the original shanks; otherwise the action parts are original. Including the damper felt. I was planning on CAGing the loose tuning pins, pitchraising 100 cents, repinning wobbling Billings flanges, adjusting lost motion, and tweaking the sustain pedal adjustment to stop the dampers' ringing. Everything but the last part went well. I *thought* the ringing dampers could be adjusted simply by putting some lost motion in the pedal-sustain rod interface. I forgot that there's a pneumatic control attached to the sustain rod ... What's the proper adjustment for this setup? TIA, Patrick Draine
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