"My Whole Keyboard is Broke"

[Diane Hofstetter]

>From: "Kevin E. Ramsey" <ramsey@extremezone.com>
>Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
>To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Subject: Re: "My Whole Keyboard is Broke"
>Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 19:06:29 -0700
>
>     Technically, the bridle wires "shouldn't" be adjusted so tightly that
>they cause the keys to wink. That is, of course, if the pedal stop is
>adjusted so that it doesn't raise the hammers beyond 1/2 blow.
>     But, we never see this, right. Not even on NEW pianos. Oh, no.
>
>
Years ago I took a beginning piano class at Napa Valley College.  The text 
book was explaining how the pedals worked.  It said that when you use the 
soft pedal on a grand, it moved the keyboard to the right and when you use 
it on an upright, it moves the keyboard down!

I told the teacher it was wrong, and seeing his opportunity to find the 
answer to a question that had perplexed him his whole career, he asked me 
what the middle pedal on a grand does.

Diane

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