Dip or Depth

[KeyKat88 at aol.com]

Greetings, 

      Dip or Key dip is the distance the key travels from rest to the bottom 
of the keybed: its travel distance. This distance is measured with a dip 
block, available from piano supply houses. 

      I guess key depth is another way of describing dip/travel, however, dip 
or key dip is the most widely used term to describe a key's travel,  because 
in another context, key depth could mean the actual dimension of the key stick 
itself, i.e. as a synonym for key height; (as in when  length, width, height 
of a key stick is described) I avoid the word depth and use the word dip, when 
talking about regulation. Its a personal preference thing, although I have 
heard the word depth to mean dip.

Julia Gottshall
Reading, PA
         
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