Trivia

[Thomas Cole]

Farrell wrote:
> 
> I have not serviced a sostenuto on an upright, and being that I don't play,
> I don't have any experience from the pianist standpoint. So my question: Why
> is a sostenuto on an upright a bad/dumb thing?

Terry,

Maybe the point was that sostenuto on many verticals is less than well
thought out. I had an 1881 S & S vertical whose sos system was pretty
clunky - it worked but you had to be pretty deliberate about using it.

For a while, I had a Yamaha U3MS and I recall that the sostenuto worked
pretty well, considering its rudimentary design.

My vote for bad piano design would be Steinway grand sostenuto rods
mounted on the _action_.

Tom Cole

> 
> Terry Farrell
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thomas A. Sheehan" <tsheehan@nyc.rr.com>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 6:44 PM
> Subject: Re: Trivia
> 
> > Full sostenuto pedals in vertical pianos!
> >
> > Yamaha U3 / U5 - Steinway 1098 and K uprights
> >
> >
> >