What do you tell a 90 year old lady....

[Farrell]

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This may be a case similar to the recent thread about someone not liking =
her new Charles Walter upright, and wanting her old Baldwin spinet back =
- "it doesn't work like it used to". If Roger Jolly's good =
recommendation does not pan out, it may be the case that the damper =
pedal for many years was adjusted so that you had to press it all the =
way down for the dampers to just lift a little (she did say that her old =
tuner did something wrong - implying that the piano worked OK before =
he/she replaced damper felt). After damper felt replacement, the old =
tech adjusted the pedal which not requires full lifting of foot to stop =
sustain where previously she only had to lift a tiny little tad with her =
tippy toes - a very different motion indeed. She may have been lifting =
to stop sustain, without really even realizing it. Now that her whole =
leg has to move - like all the way back to her hip joint, she doesn't =
like it.

What someone else suggested may work. Adjust trapwork so that there is =
LOTS of play - dampers barely lift upon full pedal depression. Make sure =
dampers seat with just a slight movement of foot. Maybe this will make =
it just like before.

Of course, maybe it is the buzzing from the old dampers she =
misses..................

Terry Farrell
Piano Tuning & Service
Tampa, Florida
mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com
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  From: Wimblees@AOL.COM=20
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  Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 10:06 PM
  Subject: What do you tell a 90 year old lady....


  .... who insists the pedals aren't working right?=20

  Situation. Lady approaches me at church and tells me her last tuner =
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  something wrong to her pedals. I got there today. It's a Acrosonic, =
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  last tuner put on new bass dampers. When she played, she kept her foot =
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  sustain pedal, and then complained that the bass notes kept ringing. =
For a 90=20
  year old, she is pretty alert, and played half way decent. When I =
played, I=20
  used the pedal like you're supposed to, lifting my foot when the chord =
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  change. She looked at me and said, "I have been playing for a long =
time, and=20
  I never lift my foot like you do. I just kept it down all the time. =
That is=20
  the way I have always played. But now the piano just keeps on =
sounding. Why=20
  is that? What is wrong with the piano?" I tried to convince her there =
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  nothing wrong with the piano. But how do you tell a 90 year old lady =
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  doesn't know how to pedal correctly?  =20

  Willem=20

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