regulating pedals?

Stephen Airy stephen_airy@yahoo.com
Wed, 28 Nov 2001 15:55:42 -0800 (PST)


What procedure do you use to regulate pedals in an old
player piano?  I'm not sure if/where the Reblitz book
says to do it -- I've looked but I'm still not sure. 
It's the kind of pedals with the metal rods going to
the left of the pedals.
For right now, I have several cloth balance rail and
front rail punchings on the top of the sustain pedal
rod.  This works, but there's still room for
improvement, and I don't have much more room for
punchings.
My soft pedal isn't working at all right now, seeing
that I lost the pin on top which pokes into the hammer
rail.  Does anyone have an idea what it would cost to
get another one?  Or, can someone tell me how to make
a pin for it?  I would also like to regulate this
pedal to be as effective as possible (even if it has
excessive lost motion when the soft pedal is
depressed), say, like 1/2" hammer blow, depending on
the limit of the hammer rail distance -- there are
some ~1" thick pads on the action support brackets
that prevent the hammer rail from going as far as I
might like.  I don't need to have it super close,
though -- I still want the hammers to fall back toward
the hammer rail at rest, not toward the strings.

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