On Aug 16, 2010, at 1:07 PM, Ed Foote wrote: > if we hit the pedal while we have a key depressed,(it happens), Actually, it happens most of the time with pedaling. The pianist plays the note and follows it (very quickly most of the time) with the pedal. So that if it isn't regulated somewhat as Ed describes, there will always be a feel of kickback through the key. Very annoying. So is the bump because the upstop rail has to be set too high to compensate, felt when the pedal isn't used. And you can get a bit of both by playing the note without the pedal (bump), and then depressing the pedal after a slight pause (kickback), a double whammy. "The Steinway touch" <G>. I regulate the upstop to the pedal, within very tight parameters: the damper levers have no play except what is available from compression of the felt. Which still allows about 2-3 mm play when the pedal isn't engaged. Regards, Fred Sturm fssturm at unm.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100816/f8373466/attachment.htm>
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