The hammer, on striking the string, sets up a vibration that is transmitted to the sounding board, and it is the sounding board that creates that tone which differentiates the piano from other instruments. Fourthly, a piano has foot pedals that greatly enhance the player’s ability to control and direct tonal volume. Foot pedals went through various stages of development before ending up in the two-pedal system in use today the left pedal for soft effect and the right pedal for loud effect. A look inside the piano while pressing the pedals show how they work. Normally, the row of feltedged dampers remains in contact with the strings. The dampers are silencers. Pressure on the right pedal makes the whole row rise in unison, allowing each string struck to vibrate freely and reverberate loudly until the pedal is raised again. Normally, the damper on a particular string is released only when the key
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32361, 29 July 1970, Page 9
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