This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Using a screwdriver like that is fine for the position in or out but it = won't help you with the correct height. Get a sostenuto adjusting block = from Steinway which allows you to set the height correctly. After you = set the height, you can use a screw driver to tap the rod into position = with the action installed. David Love Feliz Ano Nuevo to everyone, BTW ----- Original Message -----=20 From: <Wimblees@aol.com> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: January 01, 2003 10:33 AM Subject: Re: Sostenuto In a message dated 1/1/2003 1:14:53 PM Eastern Standard Time, = dm.porritt@verizon.net writes: > 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=20 > without > replacing the action 147 times! =20 Dave Although adjusting the sostentuo bar with it hanging on the belly rail = is easier, it does get in the way, sometimes, of adjusting the dampers. = You must be much better at this than me, but I don't like to remove the = sostenuto bar, especially on a Baldwin. I work around it, the best I = can.=20 I don't have trouble at all adjusting the sost. bar on a Steinway. I = reach inside with a screwdriver, and move the bracket back and forth. It = takes a couple of tries, but I don't have to move the action in and out. = =20 As to why Steinway continues to do it this way, I will have to agree = with Ed, that it is "tradition". There are lots of things they do, that = I think are for tradition, but not necessarily any better than on other = pianos. But that makes working on a Steinway so much "fun". Wim _______________________________________________ pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/84/7a/f1/a0/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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