Sostenuto

[David Love]

Any time you change the damper felt (and assuming that the felt is not a
perfect match for thickness) you will have to reregulate the height of the
sostenuto rod.

David Love


----- Original Message -----
From: "David Ilvedson" <ilvey@sbcglobal.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: January 01, 2003 12:29 PM
Subject: Re: Sostenuto


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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