Soft pedal

[Jon Page]

At 11:34 AM 2/15/98 EST, you wrote:
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>She is a rather vigorous player and when she would depress the soft pedal,
the
>hammers would fly up, striking the strings with some force, instead of just
>lessening the hammer strike distance.
>
>The piano is a Baldwin console, not sure of the age, in pretty good repair.
>When I depressed the pedal, the hammers didn't fly up.  I had to push pretty
>hard to get it to do that for me.  I tried tightening and then loosening the
>wingnut down on the pedal assembly, with no discernible effect either way.
>Karen Johnson

Advise her to play with less spirit !

Unless something is restricting the motion of the trapwork requiring extra
effort
and once overcome. . .  Bang.           I can't imagine anything though.

Jon Page
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net)
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