EXTENDED sustain pedal?

[snowtires]

i know someone posted a topic about having two sustain pedals, but has there ever been a mod made to extend the reach of the sustain pedal?  i play my rhodes standing up (while singing) and i have a hell of a time getting my foot underneath of the keyboard to get to the sustain pedal.  if there was something that extended it another 12 inches, that would be awesome, especially if it could then be angled towards either side.  i know it's in the middle of the keyboard to be more like a traditional piano, but sometimes i wish the sustain pedal was further to the right/left, so i didn't have to stand at a slight angle when playing.

[jim]

just out of interest, do you play with the two front legs extended so the rhodes is on an angle like that groovy picture on the super site?
i'd love to see somone do a gig like that.

[BackRoomSounds]

haha yeah jim me too

That would also through the pedal towards the player more.

Problem with extending the shaft would be the angle you want to put it at. Really the rod works best going in at 90degrees to the case alround. You may find the rod jams if you attempt much of an entry angle hehe

Try lifting the front legs that will bring the pedal more to you.  

[snowtires]

haha that picture.  no, i don't do that, thank god.  actually i don't use the legs anymore, they wouldn't extend far enough.  i had to buy this super heavy duty 4-legged stand (it's awesome), so the keys would be high enough that i wouldn't have to hunch over to play.  the problem with having one set of legs longer than the other is that i have another keyboard on top of the rhodes (i have a replacement mark ii flat top) and it'd probably fall off if i tilted it one way or another.  i might try doing that a little bit though.  hopefully i can get a sweet picture out of it, too.

[jim]

rad

[McCoy]

Hi Snowtires,
some years ago I played a rhodes with missing sustainpedal. So I just took a  beam and a board, both made of wood and about 1 1/2 meters long. nailed the two things together, so that they formed a cross, put a screw on one end of the board, to fix the sustain rod on it, below that a log of wood for stabilisation, and so I had a sustainpedal that I even could play below the seat (I'm sitting while playing). It was a real rough thing, nothing planed or so, just a simple seesaw, a lever. Everybody was laughing :lol: at this thing, but it did its job. I had a pedal dip of about 10 cm . We played a weekly session for years this way. Well they didn't laugh when I played....  :twisted:
McCoy