Damper pedal broke!

[b***@gmail.com]

I was in the middle of playing my 25 year-old Wurlitzer Upright, and I
play pretty rough with pianos. And suddenly the damper pedal snapped
past it's usual stopping point. So I looked into it. The damper PEDAL
itself isn't broken, but the long staff-like pole thing (I have NO idea

what the actual terms are) broke from the lever that releases the
hammers from the strings. So I can grab the pole and shove it under the

lever, to FORCE it to work, but if I let go of it, it'll just fall
right off. I don't know how it was attached before, and I thought about

hot glue, and a nail, or a screw, but I thought "maybe that would NOT
be a good idea." So I'm wondering how it's REALLY done, what's the best

way to keep it attached and working?

thanks.

[Giovanni V.]

Wow, I wonder why you'd be so rough with the damper pedal my friend?
What did it ever do to you? Maybe your dampers aren't pulling away
from the strings enough so your cramming your foot down on the pedal
trying to get sustain? Then damper-lift regulation would need to be
performed as well. Point being, you're going to go to the
trouble/expense to repair this but if you keep being so rough you might
find yourself involved in a circle of non-refinement.

(That's a Kawaii term: "The Circle of Refinement")

Anyway, if the dad-burned stick is already broken and the piano is just
a miserable 25 year old Wurlitzer vertical, I'd say to repair it any
way you can think of. Find a good glue that you like, maybe a thick
viscosity superglue and use an accelerator.

Or maybe it would be smarter to just call a piano technician. You
probably haven't had the blessed thing tuned in 5 years anyway so it's
due for that as well! I don't blame you buster, I don't blame you at
all. Tunings run like $95!!! AAAAAAAAAAAA. SO EXPENSIVE. It really
is. Ouch.

Ok, enough from me. Best of luck. I'll check back to see how this
turns out.

Giovanni

[Mark]

got to the hardware store and buy a similar wooden dowel . cut it to length,
drill holes on the ends to fit the metal pins from the broken dowel and
replace it
where the old one was.

Post by b***@gmail.com
I was in the middle of playing my 25 year-old Wurlitzer Upright, and I
play pretty rough with pianos. And suddenly the damper pedal snapped
past it's usual stopping point. So I looked into it. The damper PEDAL
itself isn't broken, but the long staff-like pole thing (I have NO idea
what the actual terms are) broke from the lever that releases the
hammers from the strings. So I can grab the pole and shove it under the
lever, to FORCE it to work, but if I let go of it, it'll just fall
right off. I don't know how it was attached before, and I thought about
hot glue, and a nail, or a screw, but I thought "maybe that would NOT
be a good idea." So I'm wondering how it's REALLY done, what's the best
way to keep it attached and working?
thanks.