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Sustain Pedal Works Backwards? Why It Happens & Best Pedals to Buy!

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If your keyboard sustains all the time when your foot is off the pedal, and then stops sustaining when you press it, you have the classic “reversed sustain” problem. The good news is that it’s almost always a setup/polarity mismatch and not a hardware failure. On many Yamaha instruments the pedal’s polarity (open/closed) is detected … Read more

Work Notes: Corroded Sliders, Broken Jacks, and Phantom Buzzes

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Volume Slider Corrosion on Korg A customer reported that no sound was coming from his Korg Triton and that the volume slider had snapped off. Liquid had clearly been spilled directly onto the fader, but—fortunately—the corrosion was confined to the slider assembly itself. Be careful! Spilled drinks can severely damage keyboards. I regularly am repairing … Read more