una corda/tre corda

[Don]

Hi Dave,

I thought it was because when the shift pedal was first introduced that
many instruments only had two strings.

At 08:43 PM 3/15/2004 -0800, you wrote:
>Since the una corda shifts and hits two strings, why is it called the una
>corda rather than the due corda.  I assumed that this might have been
>because in the early days there were only two string unisons, so that when
>the una corda was depressed it did, in fact, strike only one string.  If
>that were true, then why, when the una corda is released, is the
>instruction given as "tre corda".  
>
>Clear this one up for me please.  
>
>
>David Love
>davidlovepianos@earthlink.net
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Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.

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