Ed: I can't see where adjusting the dampers on the NY Steinway system is any easier. If the sostenuto bar is in the way on other pianos, you simply take 60 seconds to remove it, adjust the dampers, and return it. You can tell if the sostenuto is working correctly without replacing the action 147 times! I'm sure there must be *some* advantage to this system or even Steinway wouldn't keep doing it that way, but it has become an aggravation to me. I can adjust them. I have made myself a sostenuto bar height gauge and have a long screwdriver that will reach the brackets from above. I just can't help thinking as I'm doing it that it is unnecessarily awkward. It's a character flaw thing! :-) dave *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 1/1/2003 at 12:51 PM A440A@aol.com wrote: >Dave writes: > ><< To adjust the height one must use thinner leather >washers in the mounting. What an unnecessarily tedious >task!!!!!!!!!!!! If there were any functional advantage to do it >this way......... >> > > The Steinway way has less hardware hanging on the belly rail, is easier >to >install at the factory. It also makes regulating the dampers themselves >much >easier and by gollum, has "tradition" behind it. > Changing the height can be done two ways, but shimming is the easiest. >Simply cut into the edge of the leather shim about 2/3rd of the way >through >and add a piece of veneer or hard cardboard. Do it on the proximal >leather >and the sos. rod goes down, shim the distal piece and the rod goes up. > >Ed Foote RPT >www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/ >www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html > >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives _____________________________ David M. Porritt dporritt@mail.smu.edu Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 _____________________________
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