Sustain pedal plastic

[Nancy McMillan]

Bill wrote:

> I will soon tune a 1978 Schafer and Sons piano for a customer 50 miles
away.
>
> She called and said that "with a bang" the sustain pedal broke. She said
it
> wasn't the metal pedal, nor the pedal bearings, nor the dowel, nor the
pedal
> rod, but the plastic piece that goes from the pedal to the pedal rod.
White
> plastic, snapped in two.
>
> I am unfamiliar with what she is talking about and she does not explain
> things well.  So that I might take enough supplies and equipment to repair
in
> one trip, -- does anyone know what she is talking about?  Has anyone had
to
> replace such a broken plastic piece?

Hi Bill,
Sounds to me like she has described the plastic insert dowel (my technical
term). Connects the pedal dowel, which this small part slips into, to the
wooden or medal arm that is connected to the pedal on the opposite end.
I really have to get that book that tells one the correct names of all the
piano parts.
Hope this helps.
Doug Mahard