Maybe fishing line would be tougher without adding noise? Andrew At 10:13 PM 10/3/2007, you wrote: >Greetings all -- > >I serviced a 93 year old A. B. Chase upright this afternoon. I was >told that it was over three years since it was last serviced. >Surprisingly, I found it pretty much at pitch. Hammers a little more >worn than I would have liked but all still serviceable. Dampers a >little squished but not yet hard. And in need of some tender >regulation. When I finished tuning it I was really amazed at how >good this piano still sounds. It has been in this family for over 50 >years and they have never done anything to it but have it tuned so >I'm guessing it's all original parts. The action was even designed >to compensate the lost motion when the soft pedal is used. Very >nice. Anyway, why am I posting? The middle pedal on this piano is a >sostonuto, and it's not working. I found that the sostonuto design >featured a thick cotton thread, (just under 1mm thick), that got >lifted up in order to catch the tabs on the dampers. This thread was >broken at every tie point and so the sostonuto no longer works. >Today's question: What would you recommend I replace this thread >with? I thought of using a piece of piano wire but second guessed it >on account of if that had been a good idea than why didn't the >manufacturer do the same thing. > >Ideas? > >-- Geoff Sykes >-- Los Angeles -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20071003/e713ddd4/attachment.html
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