Baldwin Pedal Advice

[Robin Blankenship]

Michelle,
Sounds like excellent adivce from Joel. Also, if this IS a new complaint from the customer and because it feels within normal range to you, find out if something else has changed recently, such as the use of a different or new bench, or a recent illness that might have weakend the frame of the player, etc. 

Just a thought.

Robin Blankenship
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Michelle Smith 
  To: 'Pianotech List' 
  Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 9:45 AM
  Subject: Baldwin Pedal Advice


  Good morning everyone.  I received some good advice from Joel Rappaport concerning the Baldwin pedal issue (he lives up I-35 from me) and thought you might like to read it as well.  Enjoy!

   

  Michelle Smith

  Bastrop, Texas

   

  From Joel:

   

  1.  Anytime there is an unusual pedal adjustment that appears to have to be done, always check the assembly of the lyre onto the bottom of the case.

  First, the lyre should not be loose and able to swing back and forth when the pedal is depressed.  But also check the top of the lyre and make sure there is no space between the lyre and the bottom of the keybed.  Sometimes wrongly installed support rods (could be wood or metal) mess up the lyre position.

   

  2.  The screw that you mention that comes out of the bottom of the piano and through the trapwork lever itself usually has a big front-rail-style felt punching on it.  Is this the case?  If so, it limits the _downward_ travel of the lever ONLY to keep the lever from swinging free when the lyre is taken off.  It is NOT part of the actual pedal adjustments. when the piano is being played.

   

  3.  From your description, it sounds like what I call the "push rod" (brass rod that the pedal pushes up onto the trapwork lever) is too long.  First of all, make sure the push rod for the right pedal is seated completely down into the hole in the back of that pedal.  If that is the case and you can't make the adjustment with the two nuts on the top of the push rod (if that is what Baldwin has now), the rod may have always been too long and a bit has to be cut off with a hack saw.  It would be interesting to know if the customer always had this complaint about the right pedal or it has developed.

   

  Of course, these are in addition to all the other excellent suggestions given throughout the List.

  Good luck with this.  I am sure the List would appreciate knowing how you solved it.

   
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