puzzler: vertical damper pedal problem

[Mark Schultz]

spoons & key height

On 1/16/07, Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net> wrote:
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> > Went to tune a Sohmer console (although the problem in question was not
> > necessarily specific to this make).  Client complained that the damper
> > pedal wasn’t working well.  Dampers were coming off the strings when
> > the pedal was fully depressed, but just barely.  I turned down the nut
> > on the threaded rod attached to the pedal to time the lift sooner.  Not
> > enough time on that visit to determine why it had gone out of adjustment
> > (assuming it had ever been IN adjustment).  Problem solved….until
> > several months later when the client called that the damper pedal was
> > again not working, making playing her piano a “hateful” experience.
> > Well, we can’t have that, said I, so off I went to get to the bottom
> > if this problem.  Turned out to be something I hadn’t seen before.
> > Can you guess what it was?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Alan Eder
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> No.
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> <G>
> Ron N
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