Thanks very much. Great help. Kent On Feb 1, 2008, at 7:24 PM, Jon Page wrote: > Good points but a few areas for extra attention: >> >> (If noise is heard from the blade contacting tabs as the sostenuto >> pedal is depressed, you may need to rest your finger on each damper >> in succession while depressing the sostenuto pedal to find the damper >> tabs that are making contact with the blade.) > > No downwards pressure, lightly rest your finger so as not to press > the tab lower. > >> Depress and continue to hold down the sostenuto pedal. Deliver a >> double-forte blow to every note that has a damper. > > > A little hard on both the fingers and the action. Why not depress > the note and > and lift the damper head with your other hand to see if you can > force the tab > to 'cheat'. > > However, I have found that a visual inspection of blade insertion > onto the tabs > at the ends and aligning them with a straight edge (fore& aft / up & > down) > precludes slipping tabs. A light source from a flexible goose neck > works well. > > I fashioned one from a crank-charged flashlight for non-ending light > (jpg attached) > I reassigned the function of the center bulb. My next iteration will > have that shaft > to be a plug-in and not hard wired. great for inspecting into the > action to check > key end/damper alignment and sos tabs, spinet hammer flange screw too. > -- > > Regards, > > Jon Page<crank light.jpg> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20080201/77fec72b/attachment.html
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