Jeannie, If all else fails...any chance it can be welded? I have cast iron pedals welded all the time. I think they use some sort of brass material?... David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: "Jeannie Grassi" <jcgrassi at earthlink.net> To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org> Received: 12/1/2006 9:42:33 PM Subject: In need of Mason & Hamlin shift lever >Hello everyone, >When I arrived to tune the Mason & Hamlin BB at the local church for the >gala Christmas event there was a note asking me to adjust the "soft pedal" >since it "slipped out" when they took the piano off the stage. Would that >it were only that simple. The shift lever is broken in two. They hadn't >removed the lyre when they moved it off the stage. (I don't even want to >try to imagine the scenario....) Supply houses no longer carry these; >PianoDisc (Mason & Hamlin) doesn't have them. My only chance is for one of >you out there to part with one that you might have been saving for just such >an emergency. The piano is 1975 vintage; serial number: 79822. If you >think you might have something I can use, please contact me. We'll compare >notes. Thanks much, >jeannie >Jeannie Grassi, RPT >Registered Piano Technician >Island Piano Service >Bainbridge Island, WA >206-842-3721 >mailto:jcgrassi at earthlink.net
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