Hello!
I'm new to this forum - I'm really a pianist (sorry!), but I used to play the organ when I was a teenager for church services. I'm just beginning to build a DIY console for Hauptwerk with a view to hopefully getting my organ playing back up to scratch!
I have a set of pedals that I've MIDI-fied with reed switches. I was just fiddling with it yesterday and I thought I really should sort out the slight lateral wobble the pedals seem to have now rather than after everything is built!
Looking at the pedals, each pedal seems to each pass between 2 vertical dowels at very the toe end which keep the pedals straight, and I can see that each pedal is wrapped in some sort of bushing material where it passes between these dowels (it feels like thick PTFE tape to be honest, but it can't be - it's far too old for that!). Anyway, I presume this is what needs replacing. I was wondering about what to use and I see that you can get piano bushing felt in different thicknesses, which seems like it might be the sort of thing to use.
Do you think piano bushing felt is a reasonable material to use, and - if so - has anyone got any ideas as to what sort of glue to use to attach it to the pedals?
Thanks ever so much for any tips you're able to give me!
I'll hope to put a bit of a build blog together as I go!
*edited to add: to be absolutely honest, there's a part of me that's wondering about trying duct tape as a bushing material, although I feel guilty on some level for even suggesting using such a thing
I'm new to this forum - I'm really a pianist (sorry!), but I used to play the organ when I was a teenager for church services. I'm just beginning to build a DIY console for Hauptwerk with a view to hopefully getting my organ playing back up to scratch!
I have a set of pedals that I've MIDI-fied with reed switches. I was just fiddling with it yesterday and I thought I really should sort out the slight lateral wobble the pedals seem to have now rather than after everything is built!
Looking at the pedals, each pedal seems to each pass between 2 vertical dowels at very the toe end which keep the pedals straight, and I can see that each pedal is wrapped in some sort of bushing material where it passes between these dowels (it feels like thick PTFE tape to be honest, but it can't be - it's far too old for that!). Anyway, I presume this is what needs replacing. I was wondering about what to use and I see that you can get piano bushing felt in different thicknesses, which seems like it might be the sort of thing to use.
Do you think piano bushing felt is a reasonable material to use, and - if so - has anyone got any ideas as to what sort of glue to use to attach it to the pedals?
Thanks ever so much for any tips you're able to give me!
I'll hope to put a bit of a build blog together as I go!
*edited to add: to be absolutely honest, there's a part of me that's wondering about trying duct tape as a bushing material, although I feel guilty on some level for even suggesting using such a thing