<html> <body> At 01:03 PM 3/4/2007, you wrote: On the belly rail, of course! :-D Like everyone else does! Avery <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">It's interesting, though, to imagine the kind of piano that might emerge from such a blending. In an ideal world it might be possible to take the best from each instrument and make it into an even better one. Some Solomonic judgements would be required, though ...how would you decide where to put the sostenuto mechanism, for instance? Sounds like another urban myth to me  : ) Speculatively, Allen Wright, RPT On 4 Mar 2007, at 17:07, <a href="mailto:A440A@aol.com">A440A@aol.com</a> wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Inre Hamburg/New York pianos, Allen writes: << Another larger difference is in the lyre and pedals,  which are completely different, without the locking plate and  continuous pin. The list goes on and on.. >>      Just for the record, I love the Steinway pedal box set-up.  I have never seen another system that could be set up to be both as sensitive and trouble free as possible, as well as easy to access and work on.  I haven't seen any other system that could survive the stage treatment encountered here at the school.  I carry a spare damper pedal in the tool kit because when the ones on the stage get bent 1/4" or more lower than the others, I start to pay attention to changing it.  Shift pedals are durable, (there can be some crushing of the keyframe contact point if it isn't reinforced.  I have pieces of ebony endgrain , inlet into the stage piano keyframes after the original wood was crushed into pulp.)             I understand this venue is an extreme example, the point is, that the pedal can simply be replaced in a system that is solid enough to justify it as just another non-durable part.  It is heavier than it needs to be, and that is the way I like it.  Ed Foote RPT <a href="http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html"> http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html</a> <a href="http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html" eudora="autourl"> www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html</a>   ************************************** AOL now offers free email to everyone.  Find out more about what's free from AOL at <a href="http://www.aol.com">http://www.aol.com</a>.</blockquote> </blockquote></body> </html>