request for info on sostenuto trapwork for Steck 5'

[Mark Ultsch]

Thanks for your help.  I imagine that you've saved me a week of headaches.

Mark Ultsch
multsch@jvlnet.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Delwin D Fandrich <pianobuilders@olynet.com>
To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
Date: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 11:10 PM
Subject: Re: request for info on sostenuto trapwork for Steck 5'


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|----- Original Message -----
|From: "Mark Ultsch" <multsch@jvlnet.com>
|To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
|Sent: June 25, 2001 8:48 PM
|Subject: request for info on sostenuto trapwork for Steck 5'
|
|
|> I'm a newcomer to Pianotech.  Thanks, everyone, for helping to educate
me.
|>
|> I'm in need of getting the design configuration of the sostenuto trapwork
|> for a 1934 George
|> Steck 5'  that I'm rebuilding.  That entire assembly did not come with
the
|> piano and I'd like to get drawings of parts (or the parts themselves) to
|> reproduce it.  Without additional  information all I have available to
use
|> in designing something is a confusing abundance of screw holes and the
|need
|> to avoid interference with the other parts in the area.
|
|Good luck duplicating the original...
|
|If this system was anything like conventional, I'd be surprised. I've done
a
|couple of Geo. Steck pianos of approximately that vintage--possibly a bit
|older--and they have had an interestingly weird sostenuto design. Give it
|up, plug all those holes, and fit a conventional system using whatever
parts
|work. In my case I've used a variety of Renner parts held to the belly rail
|with cast aluminum brackets from Baldwin.
|
|-- ddf