Sustain pedal lift ratio

[Conrad Hoffsommer]

At 10:48 AM 11/10/2006 +0100, you wrote:
>Ron
>
>Thanks for a refreshingly technical contribution in the midst of the 
>yearly pre-holiday season collage of mix-mush.  Grin....with jokes about 
>triangular wheels being tossed around here on pianotech and a soon 40 post 
>thread about Gorilla Glue on Caut one has to wonder about the general 
>level of sanity amoungst our midsts as it were.
>
>Seriously tho... I'd like to hear more about how you go about designing a 
>change in the lever systems.  I remember my brother Joe doing this to 
>accommodate pianodisk systems... tho I dont think he was concerned 
>directly with the lifting ratio... more a matter of making everything fit.
>Still.. this might be a nice addition to ones technical toolbox as it were....
>
>Cheers
>RicB


I second this. The difference in feel, usually expressed as 
"heavy"/"light", has been noted more lately by both students and faculty.

BTW, the sostenudo pedal also suffers this inconsistency.




Conrad Hoffsommer - Keyboard Technician
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