how to remove upright pedals

[David Nereson]

    Yes, if you have a piano tipping dolly, you can tip the piano on its back and remove the bottom board along with all the pedals and trapwork.
    On some pianos, depending on how the pedals are arranged and mounted, pedals can be removed by unscrewing the pedal mount, holding the pedal against another mount, and tapping out the pivot pin (if it's loose enough).  
    Or you can use a  C-clamp that has a hole drilled through the end of the clamp that doesn't have the clamping screw.  If you can un-mount the pedal first, it's easier to turn the clamp's screw and push the pin out of the pedal and through the end of the clamp that has the hole.  If you can't unmount the pedal, then you have to turn the clamp's screw a half-turn at a time, pushing the clamp's leverage pin through the screw after each half-turn.  It's a hassle, but can be done.
    --David Nereson, RPT
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mark McConnell 
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 12:49 AM
  Subject: how to remove upright pedals


  I have a customer with an 1870's Steinway upright who would like the pedals replaced (the thin tin coating is worn right through). I can't figure out how to remove the pedals though. The pin at the back end of the pedals is too wide to be pulled through the opening in the case, no matter how much angling I do. I could snip the pin off the old pedals, but some replacement pedals I am looking at have pins just as wide, so I wouldn't be able to push the new ones through. Is there some way to remove the bottom of the case? Thanks for any advice. 

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