Aligning sostenuto tabs on a U-3

Conrad Hoffsommer hoffsoco@martin.luther.edu
Tue, 26 Oct 2004 04:06:33 -0500


At 20:32 10/25/2004, you wrote:
>Yes, I was surprised, too (why are the damper spoons flat and made of 
>rubber?!?).  It was their top-of-the-line upright 20 years ago.  Now only 
>the U-5 has sostenuto:
><http://tinyurl.com/5os9g>http://tinyurl.com/5os9g
>
>They had another high-end upright, with a "W" in the name, that had also 
>sostenuto.  Mason Hamlin was the only other brand that surfaced in my 
>search of the archives.  Any others that are common to run into?  Older 
>S&S perhaps?
>
>--Cy--


Steck  (teens?) had a sostenudo, also. Gots pix somewhere, but it used tab 
extensions on the damper levers and a cord-between-telephone-poles 
arrangement to catch them.



Conrad Hoffsommer

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