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 Early to rise: early to bed; Makes a man healthy, and socially dead.
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