No, no, Susan, it has to be a real pedal. Else the salesperson couldn't push it up and down and explain to the unsuspecting customer that "this piano has three working pedals.." ddf Delwin D Fandrich Piano Design & Fabrication 620 South Tower Avenue Centralia, Washington 98531 USA del at fandrichpiano.com ddfandrich at gmail.com Phone 360.736.7563 From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Susan Kline Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2011 11:43 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Terry's Comments<G> On 1/29/2011 4:58 PM, Delwin D Fandrich wrote: 2) I realize that what I'm going to suggest was not invented--by Aeolian, to give full credit -- until the 1960s but...you might consider just spreading the damper pedal and the soft pedal apart some and installing a third pedal between them. The spring Aeolian used to support the middle pedal was probably proprietary but a technician of your skill and experience should be able to adapt a genuine custom-crafted Ace Hardware spring to serve a similar function; basically that of holding the pedal up to make it look like it was actually serving some useful function. Maybe you could just paint a trompe-l'oeil middle pedal? s -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110130/a075cf85/attachment.htm>
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