Una Corda Adjustments and Christian Zimmermann

[Barbara Richmond]

Well, I don't know anything about that, but I did a rather miraculous
adjustment on a customer's piano.  I cut a piece of hammer felt to fashion a
stop for a grand damper pedal lever.  Worked great.  Unfortunately the block
of felt shifted without my noticing and later I got a call that the una
corda was
lifting the dampers.  Well, now, that was special!   (The felt block had
shifted just enough so that the una corda lever caught it on the way up and
lifted the dampers, too.)  Later, I joked with the customer (a friend who is
professor at a university) and claimed I was just trying to be
economical---you know, two pedal functions for the price of one.  :-)

Barbara Richmond


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Love" <davidlovepianos@comcast.net>
To: "'Pianotech'" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 4:12 PM
Subject: Una Corda Adjustments and Christian Zimmermann


>I heard a story from a pianist recently about Christian Zimmermann who
> apparently regulates his own pianos for concerts.  The story is that he
> regulates the una corda so that it has 4 distinct positions that produce
> four unique tones.  Has anyone worked with him to know what that's all
> about.
>
> An interesting side story about him (if true) is that he apparently used
> to travel with his own two S&S D's.  They were evidently on their way to
> NY when 9/11 happened.  The story is that the pianos were traveling with
> some type of chemical that triggered some sort of bomb alert and the
> pianos were subsequently hacked apart in an attempt to find the
> material.  Now he travels with his own action which he fits to each
> piano that he plays.
>
> David Love
> davidlovepianos@comcast.net
>
>
>
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