David, You obviously were not paying attention during Fred's class. I own Fred Drasche's Tool, which I acquired during a Silent Auction at one of the nationals. Fred Autographed i!<G> I use it often. As for a picture, I'm on my new 'puter, so I don't have the ability to scan the tool. I'll try to do that ASAP, on my "98", that has the scanner. Regards, Joseph Garrett, R.P.T. Captain, Tool Police Squares R I ----- Original Message ----- From: David Ilvedson To: joegarrett at earthlink.net;pianotech at ptg.org Sent: 9/28/2006 9:15:31 AM Subject: Re: Steinway Sostenuto Come on Joe...what is the proper tool? And how do you use it? Picture? I don't remember any specific tool when I took a sost class from Fred Drasche, except for a long piece of brass rod he used to tap in the sost brackets from the keyboard side... David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 Original message From: "Joseph Garrett" To: pianotech Received: 9/27/2006 8:04:05 AM Subject: Re: Steinway Sostenuto RicB said: "Like most others I suspect the rod is just a bit too low. Just recheck the regulation of the whole thing. Set the angle of the blade to 45? by adjusting the pedal, then set the height of the rod so that when you look at it through the the action cavity it makes a straight line with the middle of the tabs. Finnally line up the for and aft position looking from above. It should show about 1.5 to 2 mm distance from the tabs at rest. Once the rod is regulated correctly, you can determine if there is anything needed with respect to the tabs" People, What's with all this? You need to have the proper TOOL for checking the sostenuto. It is available from Steinway. Sheesh! But then, ya need to know how it is used.<G> Joseph Garrett, R.P.T. Captain, Tool Police Squares R I -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20060928/d298875d/attachment.html
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