soft pedal on new Kawaii

[D.L. Bullock]

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The hammer should be at half of its normal strike distance when the pedal is
raised.  Normal strike distance is usually 1-7/8" which means the hammer
should be 15/16" from the strings when the pedal is down.  You may find that
the felt under or above the pedal itself may be too thick not allowing it to
raise the hammers that much.  If so then remove it and replace it with some
thinner felt.  Don't worry about it becoming noisy with a thinner felt.
That pedal is not used all that much by most pianists, previous posts
notwithstanding.  It is also not often slammed down but caressed down by
most artists.

Another possibility:
To achieve that shortened strike distance, you may also have to shave some
off the stop felt found above the hammer rail felt.  This is often a block
or blocks of very solid hammer felt trimmings.  This could have drifted down
shortening the travel while the glue was wet.

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 From: Alpha88x@aol.com [mailto:Alpha88x@aol.com]
Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2004 10:53 PM
To: pianotech@ptg.org
Subject: Re: soft pedal on new Kawaii


  Greeetings List,

                  Thank you for the information and suggestions. I have
decided to go back and adjust the hammer rest rail via the pedal wing nut
back to spec of approx 50mm 1.75" plus/minus as I found it and as sugessted
by this list.

                   I am also going to advise the player to use the middle
pedal, (which is a practice mute rail) instead of the soft pedal for the
softening, and explain piano quality: Una corde 101, if you will, ie: the
difference between a grand's una corde and the "poor man's" una corde as in
the upright. I have heard this referred to as poor man's una corde before. I
guess I gotta "spilll the beans".

                   It's a shame. They just purchased this Kawaii in March of
this year ( I have to look closer at the exact model of Kawaii when I
return), and their daughter is aspiring to be a real fine player, at 14, she
played with a symphony in NYC and is expected to commence piano study at
Oberlin Conservatory in the fall!  How the piano dealer could sell this type
of piano to this caliber student, I'll never know!

                     When I "spill the beans" they may decide to return the
piano to the dealer in order to get something better, if they tell the
dealer that I told them this una corde stuff, the dealer may not like me so
much for telling all, and may not hire me again for his 'first free tuning'
on his piano sales.

                    But then again, do I really want to work for a dealer
such as this? I know that, in the long run, I will get a better reputation
and more business by steeriing folks in the right direction, because that's
what a business is built on; integrity.


  Julia,
  Reading, PA

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