---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hi Cy, Stephen Birkett wrote well about what I meant. Perhaps I confused the=20 issue a little with my rant about pianists over-pedalling :) To give you a specific example, one problem was with 2 measures which=20 have a half note (or minim, not sure where you're from!). The measures=20= signify the end of a section, and they are to be played quietly with a=20= brief decrease in volume (a kind of "dying out" sound), but if the=20 attack on the piano is too quiet the rhythm is lost. Since this is=20 Hindemith and as such is inappropriate to have a sappy-overly-held-end=20= (in order to achieve a decrease in volume), the only 2 reasonable=20 options were to loose the rhythm by starting too quiet or loose the=20 decrease in volume, I felt the rhythm was more important. - John > John, > =A0 > Did you have too much sustain only when the pedal is down, or also=20 > when it's up?=A0 In either case, can't you control it with the = dampers,=20 > either individually on the key or with the pedal?=A0 In classical=20 > guitar, we sometimes use our hand to mute strings quickly, when=20 > needed.=A0 The only situation in a piano with too much sustain that I=20= > can think of is in the undamped high treble. > =A0 > --Cy--= ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 1249 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/bf/e9/f0/d0/attachment.bin ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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