[pianotech] Broken nylon pedal bracket

Isaac Sadigursky irs.pianos at earthlink.net
Fri Aug 3 19:59:33 MDT 2012


Hi, listers!
Jim Geiger makes this part for sale.
He makes it from Maple.
.
Better then original.
Good Luck!
Isaac
On Aug 3, 2012, at 5:56 PM, Norman Cantrell wrote:

> List
>
> I made one similar to what Ron manufactured about 24 years ago when  
> Kimball was still in business.  For me it was quicker in the shop  
> out of some Ash salvaged from an old backpost than to hunt one  
> down.  I figured the replacement they would send out would have the  
> same structural issues as the original and the wood would probably  
> outlast it.  So far so good as I tuned that piano last spring and  
> everything was still fine.  The backpost was salvaged out of an old  
> upright destined for the dump so at least part of it lives on in a  
> piano today.  The plate as I recall went into my driveway as  
> reinforcing iron for a section of concrete that had to be replaced.
>
> Norman Cantrell
>
> --- On Fri, 8/3/12, Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net> wrote:
>
> From: Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net>
> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Broken nylon pedal bracket
> To: pianotech at ptg.org
> Date: Friday, August 3, 2012, 4:45 PM
>
> On 8/3/2012 4:35 PM, John Formsma wrote:
>
> > Rick, somewhat difficult to tell much from the photo. For my  
> education
> > purposes, would you mind sending a pic of what it looks like  
> without the
> > bracket?
>
> Pending Rick's photo of the original, a fabricated replacement looks  
> like this, for what it's worth.
> Ron N

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