I just looked at the piano and it turns out the dowel is about 1/2 inch too short... I put a couple front rail felt punchings and a balance rail felt punching on the top of the dowel at the pin, but does anyone know of a better fix than this? (I still need to regulate the dampers individually -- would this cure it maybe? It works now, but marginally on some notes...) --- Joe & Penny Goss <imatunr@srvinet.com> wrote: > Stephen, > You have a screw loose. > Hard buggers to set! > You will want three hands<G>I use a small Crecent > wrench to loosen the set > screw then take up lost motion and retighten set > screw. > It helps to have someone hold the pedal up or block > it up with something. > Joe Goss > imatunr@srvinet.com > www.mothergoosetools.com > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stephen Airy" <stephen_airy@yahoo.com> > To: <pianotech@ptg.org> > Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 6:29 PM > Subject: regulating sustaining pedal... > > > > I would have asked this in #pianotech, but at the > time > > I went in there a couple minutes ago, no one was > > online... > > > > I'm having trouble finding the adjustment for > > regulating my sustaining pedal. The piano is an > old > > (1913) player piano and the pedal connecting rods > are > > metal rods from the pedal to the left, and wooden > rods > > from metal tabs on the rods to the damper lift tab > in > > this case. I just replaced the damper felts in my > > piano, and now some of the dampers aren't even > lifting > > off their strings when I step on the sustaining > pedal. > > The pedal goes down about 2/3 of the way before > any > > of the dampers even begin to move. Does anyone > know > > how to get rid of this excessive lost motion? > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant > messaging with Yahoo! > Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
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