Digital Piano Pedal Board Repair

A friend has a Hemingway DP-501 mark 1 digital piano where the metal plug came away from the plastic body, on the wire from the pedal board. The pedals are switches, not continuous controllers like more advanced units. I used a multimeter to figure out the wiring. With my dyscalculia it took over an hour to do this, checking and double checking. Then I soldered in a new plug. I made a table of the pin-outs which might be helpful to someone else 🙂

Pedal (Position) Function Wire Colour DIN Pin
Left Soft Red 2
Middle Sostenuto White 4
Right Sustain Green 3
Common (GND) Brown 1

It is not a bad piano at all, certainly good enough for kids to learn piano with dynamics and a decent sound if you turn up the treble. But the action is a bit clunky compared to similarly priced Casio models that are without the big speakers.

Hemingway DP-501

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