On Nov 30, 2010, at 7:02 AM, Ed Sutton wrote: > 1) For a quick test, draw strips of cloth, felt or cardboard into > the "yoke" between the end of the flange nose and the hammer shank. > This will increase the friction without moving the hammers or > changing any other parameters. > > If you like the result, > > 2) Mold little brake shoes into the yoke and attach the brake pads > to a rail, attach the rail to a pedal, and voila! (or is that > viola!?) you have a new kind of soft pedal. > > Ed Sutton Hi Ed, I love it. Contact your patent attorney immediately. Could be retrofit to those disklavier tabs, perhaps (might void the Yamaha warrantee, though). ;-) Regards, Fred Sturm fssturm at unm.edu http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/FredSturm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20101203/aed8a6b7/attachment.htm>
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