On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 7:40 AM Kieren MacMillan
<kie...@kierenmacmillan.info> wrote:
>
> Hi Phil,
>
> > What on earth does a gradual piano pedal release achieve?  Either the 
> > dampers are touching the strings or they're not, so it's in effect a binary 
> > choice.
>
> That’s not true: the amount of pressure applied by the dampers — from 100% to 
> 0% — is graduated (based on how much gravity is allowed to act on the 
> dampers), and affects the amount of vibration in a non-binary way.
>
> Cheers,
> Kieren.
>

Making "half-pedaling" possible.  Certainly nothing to dispute there! :)

David

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