regulating sustaining pedal...

[Stephen Airy]

I just looked at the piano and it turns out the dowel
is about 1/2 inch too short...  I put a couple front
rail felt punchings and a balance rail felt punching
on the top of the dowel at the pin, but does anyone
know of a better fix than this?  (I still need to
regulate the dampers individually -- would this cure
it maybe?  It works now, but marginally on some
notes...)

--- Joe & Penny Goss <imatunr@srvinet.com> wrote:
> 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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