Sostenuto

[David Ilvedson]

What I'm saying is you usually don't have to make much of a 
change with the height even if changing the keyend felts...you 
would be using something similar?  Pressure to the sost...it is soft 
brass...will make most of the changes necessary.  

David I.

On 1 Jan 2003 at 16:48, David Love wrote:

> 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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