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Default Yamaha Piano pedal mechanism

On Sep 11, 8:54*pm, Franc Zabkar wrote:
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 01:56:48 +0100, "Arfa Daily"
put finger to keyboard and composed:

"Engineer" wrote in message
I have three pedals on my General Music PRO-1 keyboard. *Two are are
KORG brand and the other is something else but the same design. *I
took one apart a few year ago to clean and, IIRC, it was a compression
design. *They work perfectly, don't fail and I only paid about $25
each.
Cheers,
Roger


You got me there. What's a 'compression' design ?


Arfa


Strain gauge??? Capacitive transducer???

- Franc Zabkar
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Yes, a strain gauge of some type for variable resistance... it's been
a while since I looked inside them! No potentiometers or linkages
except pedal fulcrum.
Cheers,
Roger