Dear List, Anybody who has ever used a SAT foot switch knows what a pain it is to keep it under your foot while you're tuning from one end of the piano to the other! A couple of years ago, I corraled the pesky critter by cutting off the top half of an old sock, then placing the switch in the toe of the lower half and pulling the sock (& switch) over the toe of my shoe so that the switch is located under my foot in the correct position for use. Then I put my foot on the floor and rock it forward on to the switch whenever I want to change notes. Needless to say the switch never gets away and better yet, since I coil my cord around three fingers instead of the switch itself, and place the coil in the sock for storage, I have not broken any footswitch wires or plugs since I started this. FYI Warren -- Warren D. Fisher fish@communique.net Registered Piano Technician Piano Technicians Guild New Orleans Chapter 701
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