This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I should say visual observation. I just think a player with expression = pedal experience may be in a better position to listen to the = differences but this not to say that a non playing listener can't hear = the difference. So listen anyway it'll grow on ya. As far as "benefits" = go it is for the greater expression of the music and therefore benefits = everyone. Chris ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Wimblees@aol.com=20 To: caut@ptg.org=20 Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:55 AM Subject: Re: [CAUT] excessive pedaling? In a message dated 3/21/05 5:35:50 P.M. Central Standard Time, = solliday@ptd.net writes: not necessarily Wim, if one is only trying to change the TIMBRE and = not the VOLUME. And Jim Ellis is quite correct another consideration of = the pianist is decay rate. But so much of this happens intuitively at = light speed that it is not done consciously. It is expression itself. = Try it yourself. It's the only way you can really understand this, = observation is almost useless. Chris Solliday=20 Chris I am not a piano player, so I can't try it, to hear a difference. But = from what you're saying, "It's the only way you can really understand = this, observation is almost useless", makes it appear that pedaling is = more for the benefit of the player than it is for the listener.=20 Wim ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/02/ba/d7/57/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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