Avery, Renner USA has the underlever replacement kit for $400. It takes a few hours to assemble. One benefit is it has the spring-loaded sostenuto tab. This is a feature which pianists prefer. Go for it, Jon Page At 11:17 AM 06/19/2000 -0500, you wrote: >List, > > After 25+ years, I'm having to redo my first >damper tray that has the glued in underlever >flanges. Bunches of them have loose, noisy >pinning at the two pinned parts. :-( > Besides "get a new one" :-), which isn't an >option at this point, does anyone have any words >of wisdom on things to watch out for? It looks >pretty straightforward. They popped loose easily >with no damage, am cleaning up the old hide glue, >will repin and reglue with hide glue. > With the locater peg thing in the flanges, it >looks like the only thing I need to watch for is >to be sure they're glued on straight. > Any other thoughts? Thanks. > >Avery >______________________________________ > >mailto:atodd@uh.edu - Work "I haven't failed. I've > found 10,000 ways that >mailto:avery@ev1.net - Home won't work." > >Avery Todd -Benjamin Franklin- >Moores School of Music >University of Houston >Houston, TX 77204-4201 >713-743-3226 Jon Page, piano technician Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. mailto:jonpage@mediaone.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This PTG archive page provided courtesy of Moy Piano Service, LLC