Thanks for your help. I imagine that you've saved me a week of headaches. Mark Ultsch multsch@jvlnet.com -----Original Message----- From: Delwin D Fandrich <pianobuilders@olynet.com> To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org> Date: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 11:10 PM Subject: Re: request for info on sostenuto trapwork for Steck 5' | |----- Original Message ----- |From: "Mark Ultsch" <multsch@jvlnet.com> |To: <pianotech@ptg.org> |Sent: June 25, 2001 8:48 PM |Subject: request for info on sostenuto trapwork for Steck 5' | | |> I'm a newcomer to Pianotech. Thanks, everyone, for helping to educate me. |> |> I'm in need of getting the design configuration of the sostenuto trapwork |> for a 1934 George |> Steck 5' that I'm rebuilding. That entire assembly did not come with the |> piano and I'd like to get drawings of parts (or the parts themselves) to |> reproduce it. Without additional information all I have available to use |> in designing something is a confusing abundance of screw holes and the |need |> to avoid interference with the other parts in the area. | |Good luck duplicating the original... | |If this system was anything like conventional, I'd be surprised. I've done a |couple of Geo. Steck pianos of approximately that vintage--possibly a bit |older--and they have had an interestingly weird sostenuto design. Give it |up, plug all those holes, and fit a conventional system using whatever parts |work. In my case I've used a variety of Renner parts held to the belly rail |with cast aluminum brackets from Baldwin. | |-- ddf
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