[pianotech] Heavy Pedal Spring

[wimblees at aol.com]

For rebuilders, this might be an "easy" and doable solution. But what do non-rebuilders do, short of calling in a rebuilder. But even at that, is this a problem that can be solved with a weaker spring?


Wim





-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: Thu, Feb 11, 2010 11:13 am
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Heavy Pedal Spring


wimblees at aol.com wrote: 
> Steinway sustain pedals are notoriously heavy. But from what I've been > told, it's not the spring. It's the leverage, and there isn't much that > can be done about it. 
 
Nonsense, there's always something that can be done. Like Jim says, change the leverage. 
Ron N 

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