*********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 5/12/00 at 10:16 PM Tom Cole wrote: >I would hope that it would be the other way around. There are piano >compositions in which it would be nice to hang on to the bass note or >chord but change to a different harmony above by closing just the treble >dampers - a quasi sostenuto effect. I can't think of any musical >advantage to stopping the bass strings first. There is the element of bass strings taking longer to dampen because of their higher energy. Stopping them first would give a head start on the others. -- just a thought. dave David M. Porritt dporritt@swbell.net Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275
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