<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2769" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: = Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=rol= e_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV>Liszt,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>A manager at a store that I contract for requested that I figure out wh= at what was wrong with a Steinway B sostenuto pedal.  I should add that th= is piano was restrung, refinished, new hammers, etc., but the work was not very= well done.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Turns out, the dowel that goes from trapwork to monkey was not there.&n= bsp; I fabricated a dowel that ended up being level with the keybed in the down position.  I put the action back in and found that the lifting rail was= not regulated properly.  I could not get it right by sliding the rail in or= out.  It either wasn't lifting anything, or it was lifting everything a= ll of the time.  I did not feel comfortable messing with the height withou= t any guidelines.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Is there a trick to gauging the height and fore/aft position without us= ing endless trial and error?  I know this was a recent thread, so I'll chec= k the archives as time permits, but I wonder if anyone has any handy advice on= this one.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks in advance,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Dave Stahl</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>