4 pedal upright, 'tremelo' pedal???

[J Patrick Draine]

>List,
>
>I tuned a Wing & Sons Upright today.  It has 4 pedals.  The left pedal is not
>hooked up to anything, but above it is written "tremelo."  The center left
>pedal is a soft pedal above which is written "piano," the center right is a
>damper pedal above which is written forte, and I suspect the right pedal was
>for either a muffler rail, or a mandolin type rail, above which is written
>"orchestra."
>
>I'm not losing sleep over this, but I am a little curious about what the
>tremelo pedal on an otherwise typical old upright might have done, and how it
>did this.
>
>Thanks
>
>Gordon Large, RPT
>Maine

Hi Gordon,
One of my customers had one. It's strictly "Sales and Marketing"; "more is
better", and "A sucker's born every minute". Other than that, a reasonable
old upright piano.

Patrick