Steinway damper to string noise

[David M. Porritt]

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On 5/12/00 at 10:16 PM Tom Cole wrote:

>I would hope that it would be the other way around. There are piano
>compositions in which it would be nice to hang on to the bass note or
>chord but change to a different harmony above by closing just the treble
>dampers - a quasi sostenuto effect. I can't think of any musical
>advantage to stopping the bass strings first.

There is the element of bass strings taking longer to dampen because of
their higher energy.  Stopping them first would give a head start on the
others.   -- just a thought.

dave


David M. Porritt
dporritt@swbell.net
Meadows School of the Arts
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX 75275