Dave Porritt of SMU writes: >>>>On the newest ones (P22's) the bar from the pedal to the dowel is tubular >>steel. On many of these I have to adjust the pedal screw like once a >>year. >>Am I indeed the only one who has noticed that these things need more >>frequent adjustment than they should? Having previously worked for a Yamaha retailer here in Austin, my experience has been that the problem is not with the tubular metal rod bending, but rather the wing nut slipping slightly from an extremely loose mis-match of threads between the wing nut and the prop screw. I found this not only on P22's, but most all of the American made verticals as well. Yamaha sent me (at no charge, I might add), several sets of threaded nuts which you simply screw down on top of the wing nut, thus preventing any "unthreading" or otherwise slipping of the wing nut. Perhaps a call to Yamaha (with the proper bowing & scraping, of course) would result in a solution to your problem. It worked for me. I have had no problems with the pianos since adding those nuts. Good luck! Tom Seay The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX Please note the new address t.seay@mail.utexas.edu. This will now be the main e-mail address for the Piano Tech Department. Thank you!
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