Kimball lyre

Avery avery1@houston.rr.com
Wed, 01 Feb 2006 16:17:33 -0600


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Well, William. It's better than going under to stop some excessive 
pedal travel and find out that another "tech" had put an upright 
damper there to stop the pedal!!!! :-( The unfortunate thing is that 
I know who did it and I KNOW he knows better! Oh, well. I guess it's 
called job security!

Avery

At 03:36 PM 2/1/2006, you wrote:
>Hello list,
>
>This is my first time with a real question so no 
>snickering.   Especially about the piano, ha ha
>
>My customer said she had a noisy sustain pedal.   It is a Kimball 
>Viennese grand.   Well the pedal looks like a Mustang that had slid 
>in to a ditch.   When I removed the lyre I found that there is a 
>piece that holds all three pedals in place.   It is nylon and it is 
>broken.   I called Schaff and they said they used to have some 
>replacement parts, but they were all gone.
>
>Now the question.   Does anyone have one or do you have a reasonable 
>repair procedure?   I wish that she would just trade it in on 
>another piano, but that is a different story.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>William
>
>
>
>
>PIANO BOUTIQUE
>William Benjamin
>Piano Tuner Extraordinaire
><http://www.pianoboutique.biz>www.pianoboutique.biz
>The tuner alone,
>preserves the tone.
>
>

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