Cy Shuster wrote: > Does adjusting the damper timing lessen the abruptness of the cutoff? > Lifting them sooner in the pedal downstroke should allow a little more > sustain. > > --Cy Shuster-- Only if you include pedal technique as part of the pianos sustain. I get your point tho, and when you first mention this.... if dampers are << absolutely poifectly regulated >> you should be able to adjust the pedal so that dampers would allow just a tad of << after ring >>. Unfortunatly... the system is far to unstable to remain regulated so precisely thus, so we cant get away with that. RicB -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html
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