<HTML style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1251"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16587" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <P> <DIV>Michelle,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Have you looked at the sostenuto pedal and mechanism adjustment?  To me "crunchy" suggests a group of sostenuto tabs hitting the lip of the sostenuto rod on their way up.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Bruce Dornfeld, RPT</DIV> <DIV><A href="mailto:bdornfeld@earthlink.net">bdornfeld@earthlink.net</A></DIV> <DIV>North Shore Chapter</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <P></P></BODY></HTML>