Rob I have found Gully's to be very stable pianos. I tuned one that I hadn't tune for 10 years, and accused the owner, a music teacher, of "cheating" on me, but she swore no one touched the piano. It was right on pitch, and just needed a few unisons tweaked, The pedal is not broken, The rod has come off. That is why she can still press the pedal down, but nothing is happening. She probably let the pedal slip off her foot, which caused the bottom of the rod to come out out of the hole. At most, one of the pins in the ends of the rod has come out. Wim -----Original Message----- From: Rob McCall <rob at mccallpiano.com> To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Thu, Apr 29, 2010 11:56 am Subject: [pianotech] Gulbransen Spinet Pedal Greetings, I have an appointment tomorrow for my first Gulbransen spinet. It hasn't been uned in 7 years. The lady, who says she's had this same piano for 50 years, aid that during the last week the "legato" pedal just stopped working. Looking hrough the archives, I find that this piano made the "bottom" 10 list, and I ead a few things about broken pedals. Are broken pedals a common thing for this piano? Is there any consensus (yeah, ight...) :-) on the method to repair it if it is broken? I don't have any ore info than that until I get to the appointment tomorrow. I just wanted to e as prepared as I can for this "fine" instrument... Thanks, Rob McCall McCall Piano Service, LLC ww.mccallpiano.com urrieta, CA 51-698-1875 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100429/9183f9de/attachment.htm>
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