Complexity (was Una corda today, (was Will RCT do this? (was Proposal off-topic))

[Kristinn Leifsson]

This is getting too complex...find another way if you can.

Kristinn



At 09:49 8.12.2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Greetings,
>    I am splitting the thread subjects as soon as the thread leaves the 
> topic,
>  this isn't about the SAT pitch raising!
>
>     I earlier posted my procedure of dropping the
>mute between notes and using the una corda to isolate the middle string for
>tuning, then roughly bringing up the other two.
>
>Tony writes:
> >Agreed. The una corda method would work on most pianos but not the new
> > Yamahas. From what I have read (on list ?) the new method for regulating
>the una
> > corda is to still have the hammer strike three strings, but a softer part
> >of the hammer. All this to stop the sympathetic string from vibrating
>sideways
> >and buzzing on dampers or something like that.
> >But what about the pianist and the different sound you get with the third
> >string ringing in sympathy as against being struck.
>
>   I agree, this is one way to regulate a una corda and I think it was
>tradtionally used on many European pianos.  Some instruments only have the
>clearance and tolerances to do it this way, but where possible, I prefer to
>give the pianist as much control as I can.
>     This means that with partial depression, the pedal moves all hammers to
>new felt, going deeper lets hammers be moved to "graze" the leftmost wire of
>the trichords, and when the pedal is all the way down, all appropriate
>hammers off the third string.
>     I may be expecting too much pedal sensitivity from the moderate level
>pianist, and this type of regulation is expensive in time, but when the
>situation allows for this level of work, and an accomplished performer gets
>syncronized with a pedal like this, they notice!
>Regards,
>Ed