Soft pedal spring

[Jon Page]

Something else to consider. Maybe the pedals have the wrong attitude.
Yeh, you heard me !
If the pedals are sloping upwards, this could cause extra effort to depress
them.  A piano teacher with a Baldone (I like it, Newton) complained
about the damper pedal being hard to use. Other tuners were not able
to fix it so I corrected the level of the pedal. Of course that meant cutting
the pedal rods since they never need any type of periodic adjustment to
warrent an adjuster on the top.
That corrected the feel of the pedal and also the shift.
The spring may still need a little persuasion.

Jon Page
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net)
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