Stephen, When did you lose the pin? If it was since the piano was in its current location, then it's still in there somewhere. All you have to do is find it, which might be a little challenging since the piano is apparently a player. Those pins probably cost about 8 cents from a supply house, but if there is a minimum order requirement of, say, $10, you may not want to go that route either. You could do what homeowners sometimes do, just stick any old nail or screw in the dowel hole to keep the dowel in place, or you could get a little fancier by cutting out the smooth part of an appropriately sized nail, round the ends, polish it up and glue it in place in the dowel. Regards, Clyde Stephen Airy wrote: > My soft pedal isn't working at all right now, seeing > that I lost the pin on top which pokes into the hammer > rail. Does anyone have an idea what it would cost to > get another one? Or, can someone tell me how to make > a pin for it? I would also like to regulate this > pedal to be as effective as possible (even if it has > excessive lost motion when the soft pedal is > depressed), say, like 1/2" hammer blow, depending on > the limit of the hammer rail distance -- there are > some ~1" thick pads on the action support brackets > that prevent the hammer rail from going as far as I > might like. I don't need to have it super close, > though -- I still want the hammers to fall back toward > the hammer rail at rest, not toward the strings.
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