regulating sustaining pedal...

[Joe & Penny Goss]

Stephen,
You have a screw loose.
Hard buggers to set!
You will want three hands<G>I use a small Crecent wrench to loosen the set
screw then take up lost motion and retighten set screw.
It helps to have someone hold the pedal up or block it up with something.
Joe Goss
imatunr@srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Airy" <stephen_airy@yahoo.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 6:29 PM
Subject: regulating sustaining pedal...


> I would have asked this in #pianotech, but at the time
> I went in there a couple minutes ago, no one was
> online...
>
> I'm having trouble finding the adjustment for
> regulating my sustaining pedal.  The piano is an old
> (1913) player piano and the pedal connecting rods are
> metal rods from the pedal to the left, and wooden rods
> from metal tabs on the rods to the damper lift tab in
> this case.  I just replaced the damper felts in my
> piano, and now some of the dampers aren't even lifting
> off their strings when I step on the sustaining pedal.
>  The pedal goes down about 2/3 of the way before any
> of the dampers even begin to move.  Does anyone know
> how to get rid of this excessive lost motion?
>
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