Dear List, I'm assisting/guiding a friend and university colleague on a fairly thorough restoration of an M&H 'AA' from 1926. The problem is the sostenuto system does not work-there is no way the sost rail can make contact with the tabs as it is simply too far away on a horizontal plane-and yet there is no adjustment whatever on the brackets which would bring it closer. There is no evidence that anyone has ever messed around with this assembly, yet there is no way the system could work with the current setup-in fact, we are beginning to wonder whether it _ever_ worked at all. It looks as though it might be necessary to remove the brackets from the belly rail and make them able to drive deeper into said rail if the system is to function. I would rather wait to do any creative bending until other paths are exhausted. Question: I'm wondering if anyone has any direct experience in the removal/insertion of the sost brackets in the belly rail in an instrument of this vintage. Are they screwed in?-driven in?-anyone know? Thanks for any suggestions/knowledge about this. Greg Granoff Gregory J. Granoff RPT Staff Piano Tech Humboldt State University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100919/51b2af5e/attachment.htm>
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