<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Great work on the sustenuto<BR><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I have some info on fixed tabs from the turn of mid century.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="New York">Fixed tab sostenuto adjustment</FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="New York"> </FONT><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="New York">Fixed tab sostenuto on the mid Steinways and Mason and Hamlins according to those factory field technicians of the ‘50s, and ‘60s were adjusted</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="New York"> </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="New York">in a slightly different manner than recently suggested.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal New York; min-height: 19px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="New York">The operation by the musician was expected to be that the sustain pedal had no effect on the sostenuto, only the keys.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal New York; min-height: 19px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="New York">The adjustment in sequence:</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="New York">1. Adjust the sostenuto to raise the dampers barely above the key lift.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="New York">2. Set the upstop rail to keep the dampers from rising further. In some cases it may not be necessary to adjust the upstop higher than the key lift if the upstop felt is sufficiently soft.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="New York"> </FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="New York">3. Set the sustain lift at just below the key lift so that no tabs are caught by the sustain pedal.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal New York; min-height: 19px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="New York">This fully separates sostenuto activity from sustain activity and makes possible sostenuto action to be the only action apparent in the case that both sostenuto and sustain pedals are accidentally or intentionally depressed at the same time</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal New York; min-height: 19px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="New York">I see little reason that the new moveable tabs can’t be adjusted on a like manner.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="New York"> </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="New York">There is literature which can be helped.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal New York; min-height: 19px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="New York">Daniel Gurnee RPT Retired HSU.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>