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[Don]

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.
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