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  • 1.  Steinway Pedal Sleaves

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 3 hours ago

    Does anyone have a source for Steinway type pedal pin sleaves. Cloth bushings just don't last as long as the nylon type material. My experience of trying to order them from Steinway was a bit fraught.



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    John Pope
    University of Kentucky School of Music
    Lexington, KY
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  • 2.  RE: Steinway Pedal Sleaves

    Posted an hour ago
    Hi, John,

    As I tend to buy these a dozen or so at a time; and haven’t ordered any for a while, I don’t know what their current supply is like.

    That said, and only FWIW, I have found that it’s often much easier to use those bushings if one also replaces the pivot rod with the newer, marginally smaller dimension one. The while the old rod doesn’t need replacing because of wear (unless, of course,it does), its larger diameter can make installation of the new bushings an exercise in frustration.

    If someone else has a better solution, I’d love to know it!

    Kind regards,

    Horace