Sostenuto vs Indidivual sustain

[Richard Moody]

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Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 3:33 PM
Subject: Re: Sostenuto vs Indidivual sustain 


Only a dollar?

Phil Romano
Myrtle Beach, SC

Sure, what ever more than a dollar you can get you can keep.    ---ric 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Moody" <remoody@midstatesd.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 12:50 AM
Subject: Sostenuto vs Indidivual sustain


> With Ed's explaination below I would like to pose a guestion that has to
do with
> the origins of the concept of sostenuto.   If I invented the pedal, I
would have
> said, "You hold down the pedal and it sustains only the notes you play"
Why
> would I want to require the player to depress the notes he wants to
sustain all
> at the same time, THEN hold them down for an instant and THEN depress the
pedal?
> Why not just have a pedal you hold down and it sustains what ever (but
only) the
> notes you play, for as long as the pedal is down?
>     Why hasn't this idea ever caught on except for player pianos?  It
can't be
> that difficult to build, in fact it ought to be easier to make than a
sostenuto
> system. I would think it would cure a bunch of us amatures who use the
damper
> pedal too much.
>     Don't get me wrong, I am  not advocating getting rid of the sos pedal.
Come
> to think of it, such a pedal might make the sos pedal even more appealing.
It
> could catch the notes you held down with individual sustain without
requiring
> the agravating "accuracy" of timing the sos pedal.  And BTW I want a
dollar for
> every piano this is put into.  Thank you.
>                  ---ric
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <A440A@AOL.COM>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 4:53 AM
> Subject: Re: Sostenuto regulation
>
>
> Keith says,
> <<I fail to see how having
> the damper stop rail too high would in any fashion mess up the dampers,
> and/or the operation of the sostenuto system.>>
>
> Greetings,
>    If the underlevers are allowed unlimited upward travel, a strong blow
can
> send them over the top of the engaged sostenuto rod.  This doesn't happpen
> with the unsprung sos. tabs, but the later models will allow the
underlever
> tab to go above, and when it does, it stays up there!
> Regards,
> Ed Foote RPTs
>
>