Rob, I actually prefer the Steinway type - it makes it so much easier to access the dampers, don't you think? Maybe it's all in what you're used to, though. Allen ---------- >From: Rob Goodale <rrg@unlv.nevada.edu> >To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org> >Subject: Re: an old broadwood >Date: Thu, Nov 13, 2003, 9:25 PM > >> I gave a chapter technical on the sostenuto pedal a few years back and in > my >> research came up with the fact that Claude Montal invented the sostenuto >> pedal in 1864 in Paris, which was then improved upon and patented by >> Steinway in this country in 1875. > > ...who then in turn came up with the lame idea of putting it on the action > instead of in the piano. > > Rob Goodale, RPT > Las Vegas, NV > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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