<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" = xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" = xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" = xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" = xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; = charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" = name="State"/> <o:SmartTagType = namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"/> <o:SmartTagType = namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"/>  <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#000000"> <div class=Section1> Hi,David! Good suggestion about building a new = bracket system for Kimball lyre,.. BUT  Take another look at it.It has =  no BUTTOM,the whole box needs to be modified.Every time I look at those creatures-the = more I appreciate good solid Steinway,Baldwin,Mason-Hamlin,Yamaha = designs<o:p></o:p> If new pedal lyre box will be installed {it’s = possible”,then it needs to be refinished..Here is another expance.. APSCO used to sell components for Lyre repairs,boxes were sold separately.Very good = traditional design.  Let’s keep exploring it.. Hope,my info helps.. = Best   Isaac<o:p></o:p> <div> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center tabindex=-1> </div> From: = pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of David Ilvedson Sent: Wednesday, February = 01, 2006 8:31 PM To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: RE: Kimball = lyre<o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p> </o:p> There it is Billy Benjamin, right in front of your eyes...the broken = plastic piece.   It holds the pedal pins in place in the = lyre.   Can't you come up with something that would work?   Make it = out of wood...maybe a brass bar...duplicate it somehow...that's what's fun = about the business...when you get done with it, take a picture and show us what = you did!   Remember the dowels we sometimes see in pedals, one on = either side of the pedal with a bushed hole the pin when in...maybe something = like that would work...<o:p></o:p> David Ilvedson, RPT <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Pacifica</st1:City>, = <st1:State w:st="on">California</st1:State></st1:place> <o:p></o:p> <div style='border:none;border-left:solid black 2.25pt;padding:0in 0in = 0in 4.0pt'> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center> </div> Original message From: "William Benjamin" <PIANOBOUTIQUE@COMCAST.NET>To: Pianotech <PIANOTECH@PTG.ORG>Received: 2/1/2006 1:36:31 PM Subject: Kimball lyre<o:p></o:p> Hello list,<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> This is my first time with a real question so no snickering. =   Especially about the piano, ha ha<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> My customer said she had a noisy sustain pedal.   It is a Kimball Viennese grand.   Well the pedal looks like a Mustang that had = slid in to a ditch.   When I removed the lyre I found that there is = a piece that holds all three pedals in place.   It is nylon and = it is broken.   I called Schaff and they said they used to have some replacement parts, but they were all gone.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Now the question.   Does anyone have one or do you have a = reasonable repair procedure?   I wish that she would just trade it in on = another piano, but that is a different story.   = <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Thanks in advance,<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> William<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> PIANO BOUTIQUE<o:p></o:p> William Benjamin<o:p></o:p> Piano Tuner Extraordinaire<o:p></o:p> <a href="http://www.pianoboutique.biz/">www.pianoboutique.biz</a></= font><o:p></o:p> The tuner alone,<o:p></o:p> preserves the tone.<o:p></o:p>  <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> </div> </div> </body> </html>