Hi Terry, Before about 1915 some pianos had a "working" soft pedal that had a "lost motion compensator" built in. That could actually allow good control over playing "extra soft". Too bad the manufacturers got rid of it. At 08:45 PM 1/13/2007 -0500, you wrote: >IMHO, you are correct. The soft (left) pedal on most vertical pianos is >nothing more than a marketing effort, on the part of manufacturers, to paint >their vertical piano "the same as" a grand piano. > >Terry Farrell Regards, Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T. Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat mailto:pianotuna at yahoo.com http://us.geocities.com/drpt1948/ 3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK, S4S 5G7 306-539-0716 or 1-888-29t-uner
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