Sostenuto

[David Ilvedson]

I believe that the Steinway Sost doesn't need much up and down 
regulation so I have always simply applied pressure one way or the 
other up or down for that adjustment.  I haven't had to change the 
leather punchings...

David I.

On 1 Jan 2003 at 12:51, 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
> 
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