Upright soft pedal

[Don]

Hi David,

I mention that before 1915 the pianos were sometimes equipped with a "lost
motion compensator" so that the soft pedal really did offer the same
"control" as the full blow. 
At 10:52 PM 11/17/2005 -0700, you wrote:
>
>    I show them how it puts the hammers closer to the strings, thus 
>introducing lots of lost motion.  I tell them that this doesn't really 
>make it softer, but it takes away a lot of their power, making it 
>"easier" to play soft.  Then I might explain what a "real" soft pedal on 
>a grand piano does, and that it's impractical to have the same system in 
>a vertical piano.  --David Nereson, RPT

Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.
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