It's 3.52AM, I've never played piano, i've never had any interest in playing the piano, I have no intention of learning to play the piano. Yet, here we are.
Even the soft pedal? What the? How did you play music with the ppp dynamic? Or even for pianissimo I utilise the soft pedal. I did receive that very same response with regard to the middle pedal however. I actually think it’s the coolest of all😂
Oh, my, I'm 75 years old and a season-ticket holder at my local symphony, but I've never had an explanation of this marvelous concept. Thanks very much, Mr. Sung, for answering the question so clearly and beautifully.
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My piano instructor taught me this.waaaay back in the day. I fell in love with playing the piano at 5 age and now at 58 I can safely say....it's a love that's never left me and has only gotten stronger over the years.
That's the entire reason I clicked on this video. My mom played piano growing up and she just said that she never used it, so I tried for years to figure out what it did, all to no avail. I'm calling her when she wakes up.
That's because 1) it is rarely used, so many people never learn what it is for 2) as you could see, they do different things depending on the piano type.
Basically: Left: Soft Pedal Middle: Sostenudo Pedal (When only the notes you play are sustained)(on Grand Piano) Middle: Super soft/ “muted”/ practice pedal sound (mostly on upright pianos) Right: Sustain Pedal
Excellent explanation! I've sat down and played around with the pedals and sort of intuitively figured out most of it, but hearing such a clearly explained description of what exactly is happening is very much appreciated.
I just learned more in this video about the pedals than I did in 20 years of piano lessons including an Ivy League college where I earned a music composition degree. Thank you.
thanks for this. growing up we had two upright pianos in the house. the left and the right pedals i could figure out just by experimenting, but i could never find a purpose for the middle one.
This was the opposite for me. The right was the sustain, and the middle was the damper. I had no idea what the left pedal did before this year, but when I tried using it correctly, nothing happened :(. It *is* an old piano, after all. It probably didn't work.
You're right, damper and sustain refer to the same pedal and function. (Dampen is actually the opposite of sustain, but the term refers to the piano dampers, which are lifted when the pedal is used.) He meant to say "una corda"--which is more commonly called the "soft pedal." Most uprights don't have a true una corda, but produce a lower volume by other means.
The middle pedal is different on uprights. Some pianos the middle pedal will sustain just part of the keyboard like on studio uprights. Old uprights it was used to muffle the strings. I like the grand action better. The soft pedal on an upright does not move to the right or left. The soft pedal on an upright moves the hammers closer to the strings. Uprights have many limitations, slower actions make playing many classical pieces difficult if not impossible. And of course the pedals are different, except the damper pedal.
On a grand, the soft pedal does one other thing. The hammers usually have grooves where they hit the strings. When the soft pedal shifts them over, the softer part of the hammer - the part between the grooves- hits the strings, producing a much softer tone. This is qualitatively different from just hitting fewer strings, and a much more significant factor in the moderation of the tone.
I grew up learning classical piano on an old upright Cunningham made around the turn of the century in Philadelphia. The keys were ivory, and the straps were leather. The finish on the outside was old and weathered, but when you flipped up the fall board the wood was a beautifully polished dark cherry. It must have been absolutely stunning to behold when it was new. Sadly, the repairs and tuning on such an old instrument became extremely cost ineffective and I had to give it away. I'd like to think that the family I gave it to is still playing it and loving it every bit as much as I did, and that one day they will pass it on to someone else who will love and play it just the same.
I was trained on an organ years ago but later played a piano just for fun. I never knew what those pedals were for except the far right one. The wonder of RUclips. Thank you!
The pedals get in the way i recommend sawing them off and selling them for scrap metal . You could get about four bucks for all three and that's one third of a pack of smokes .
Never mind the funny comments below. I am a beginning piano player, just finishing the first year of official music and instrument learning in Belgium, and I sincerely thank you, Mr. Sung, for the clear explanation and demonstration of what the 3 pedals are for. Compared to the brief indications I have hear or read before, this clip says it all.
How the hell would you engineer the sostunuto pedal??!! This technology was probably invented like 500 years ago too.. guess they had a lot of time back then :P
after thinking about it for a couple minutes... it wouldnt be that hard, keep in mind i have no idea how a pianos mechanisms actually work, but if a key is pressed it might pivot up at the other end (like a teeter totter), hitting the rods attached to the wood felt blocks making noise. but if the back of the key is up, you could put a rod horizontally against and under those keys thus holding them in place. Edit, i just realized this would make the keys stay depressed which they are not.
One thing that you implied but didn’t demonstrate is that when the sostenuto pedal is down after having pressed some keys, when those keys are played again they will be sustained. When first played, they will eventually fade out even though they’re not dampened, but to play them again they will be re-susstained. Great explanation though.
As a person whose only knowledge on the pedals is what he learned in this video, I will say no; it should be: 1- As long as held, everything is soft 2- As long as held, all notes that were being played during the initial holding of the pedal are sustained 3- As long as held, everything is sustained
@@jtm232556 "sostenuto" just means "sustain" in Italian. Therefore calling one pedal "sustain" and another one "sostenuto" is very vage and doesn't indicate the difference between both pedals. "Sustain" and "sustain hold" is much more precise and informative
Stupid question (I'm a violinist), when music says "Ped." underneath the notes, are you supposed to just know which pedal to use? Or are the different pedals labeled differently? I assume it's quite trivial for a pianist to realize which pedal is the correct one to use given the music but I'm just curious because I only ever see "Ped." in piano sheet music, never anything else.
Actually a great question! "Ped." indicates using the damper/sustain pedal to the far right, by far the most common pedal used. "Una corda" or "U.C." indicates using the Una corda/soft pedal on the far left. "Sost." is the abbreviation used for the sostenuto pedal. Hope that helps!
I had a Yamaha M1 piano and the soft pedal worked differently. Instead of shifting the hammers to hit just 1 string, what happened at my piano was, that the hammers would get closer to the strings, meaning that they can build less momentum, thus sounding softer. Looking at my keyboard, the keys wouldn't shift to the right, but would simply go a little bit down, as if they're being pressed a little. I'm glad I had this piano, because keys changing position to the right can be confusing when you work on your blind coordination.
Magnificent video. Studying music, the question of what exactly the three piano pedals do and which one is which quickly becomes an "at this point I'm too afraid to ask" question I feel, and having it explained so clearly and technically is a pleasure. Thanks!
Great description. They work so beautifully on a Bösendorfer. (I have their model 170). The sostenuto pedal on older grands is often out of order because it is so rarely used and so many people don’t know how to use it. It can be very tricky to get it to engage because of the critical timing between striking the notes and depressing the sostenuto pedal.
We had an upright when I was growing up. I taught myself to play (though I wasn't all that good) Since, I never took lessons, I never knew what those pedals did. I only knew that one seemed to make the notes last longer. Now I know what they're for! Thanks!
I am a piano teacher and find this video excellent, some other similar videos on YT give wrong information. Thanks for showing the mechanism inside the piano.
If you step at the sustain and soft pedal at the same time, your piano takes a screenshot.
Very funny...😂👍. Unfortunately not. But good idea.
Hilarious!
I did it. It just closes the application:( (MY PIANO IS GONE!)
That was very, very funny. I have had beginner students who ask me what happens when they do that. Thank you, now I have the answer! :)
😂😂
If you press all three at once, it opens the task manager.
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But we have only 2 foots. So we can get a big cement brick and can be placed on the 3 pedals in parallel. Hare Krishna.
Takes a screenshot
@@oliwer6700youtube censor algo?
It's 3.52AM, I've never played piano, i've never had any interest in playing the piano, I have no intention of learning to play the piano. Yet, here we are.
The universe knows.
Every piano teacher I ever had would just tell me “we don’t really use those” in regard to the two pedals to the left lol
Even the soft pedal? What the? How did you play music with the ppp dynamic? Or even for pianissimo I utilise the soft pedal. I did receive that very same response with regard to the middle pedal however. I actually think it’s the coolest of all😂
I don't play piano, but I have been curious about these pedals for decades! Thanks for the explanations!
Exactly same here
Me too.
Decades??!!! Heck, how old are you
me too!
@@secondoverthree Decades old. Bye now!
This is about 350% more than my piano teacher ever taught me!
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Whoever invented the piano was an absolute genius.
really? I always imagined it invented by an imbecile 🤨
Bartolomeo Cristofori, 1700 AD
Oh, my, I'm 75 years old and a season-ticket holder at my local symphony, but I've never had an explanation of this marvelous concept. Thanks very much, Mr. Sung, for answering the question so clearly and beautifully.
Great explanation! Now I shall stick to perfecting the Kazoo
The master kazooist it Jacksucksatlife
To play Spear of Justice? e-e
Of course bandit, you got this 😂
haha me too
Haha
Some say Hugh sung, but really he just played piano
This made me want to die
Send help, i"m about to die laughing..
Such an underrated comment
No no no, you misunderstood. Hugh's HUNG.
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Ambulanse:Whats your emergency?
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Ambulanse: ...
Me: ...
Ambulanse: WE WILL SEND EVERY UNIT TO HIS LOCATION NOW:::::::: GO GOG GO GOG GOG GO!
They arive: Carefull he is a hero
My piano instructor taught me this.waaaay back in the day. I fell in love with playing the piano at 5 age and now at 58 I can safely say....it's a love that's never left me and has only gotten stronger over the years.
Easy one, from left to right: clutch, brake and gas
Hal Haha
But can you do heel and toe on a piano?
Thx lol
Instructions unclear. Drove piano into wall.
Doesn't help for someone who isn't a car guy. I don't know what the clutch does. :p
Wow! That Sauce-to-noodle pedal is pretty cool! That was the one I had the most questions on.
Hahaha love that spelling ;)
*Sauce-to-noodle Intensifies*
That's the entire reason I clicked on this video. My mom played piano growing up and she just said that she never used it, so I tried for years to figure out what it did, all to no avail. I'm calling her when she wakes up.
Lol never pronounce that the same way again
Lol your interpretation of the name will now help me remember it. Thanks
Never drive a car after practicing a piano. if you will, drive at your own risk. XD
What about just after playing drums?
Chad Urot 😂
I’m about to have driving lessons soon after I’ve been playing piano and practice if constantly for four years 😬
Thats racist. Most asians can drive
Spair 😂😂
I've played piano for 25 years and no one could ever clearly explain the function of the middle pedal to me like you did. Thank you!
That's because
1) it is rarely used, so many people never learn what it is for
2) as you could see, they do different things depending on the piano type.
You played for 25 years and didn't use a sustain pedal??? 🤣🤣
What did Hugh do before he played the piano?
Hugh Sung
Hahahaha!
DuckBear xD
So easy to understand thank you
😂😂😂😂😂
I see what *Hugh* did there
What level of engineering was used to make these functions on the piano possible, like jeez!
Plane:...
Car:...
Rocket:...
Pedals on piano: OHHH MYY GODDD HOW DID THEY DO THAT??!!!
If you step on the Ctrl + W Pedal, it closes
lol thats how to close a tab: Ctrl + W lol
Woah nice trick xD
@@WilliamJMiller4Him no shit sherlock
*Ctrl+W*
Just remember to turn off your piano with ctrl+q
Sauce to noodle pedal
I'm hungry and all I can hear is "Sauce to Noodle Peddle"
Now I'll never forget what the pedals do!
The Algorithm: Hey, here's an answer to a question you never asked but probably wouldn't mind knowing the answer to.
Me: Yes please.
Now I know how to play piano properly, all I need is just a piano.
Basically:
Left: Soft Pedal
Middle: Sostenudo Pedal (When only the notes you play are sustained)(on Grand Piano)
Middle: Super soft/ “muted”/ practice pedal sound (mostly on upright pianos)
Right: Sustain Pedal
What am I doing here?, I don't even have a piano.
Vapor Wave - sama wanna borrow mine?
I want. Lend me a piano XD
me neither lol still always wondered about these pedals =)
XXX Brandon let me borrow it
Darren Publico I got you brother 😘
Now I know why the sostenuto pedal didn't work on my friend's upright ! That has been bugging me !! Thanks !
The "practice" pedal is the most defecting part of upright piano, expecially when used improperly.
.....now all I need is a piano.
We'd be more than happy to help you get one! cunninghampiano.com
.....now all i need is money
Getting a piano is the easy part 😂
Gutch220 Same here
would be quite a bit of firewood in that pianer
Basically:
Left pedal: Soft sound
Middle pedal: Save fade key
Right pedal: Faded sound
0:15 - Most important part. I can't tell you guys how often I see pianists trying to operate those pedals by hand while also playing the piano.
Best explanation!!
Aww, thanks, Guitar!
My piano is so old the pedals expect the right one is broken (the middle one is being blocked i think)
Edit: *except
Guitar Gabruz I have always wondered what these pedals were for. Thanks a lot .
Guitar Gabruz i
666th like *illuminati song pls... piano...? :(*
Oh man I've been banging my head on those pedals. Using my feet sure has made it allot easier. Thanks saved me allot of money on aspirin and bandaids.
I swear these 5-10 minute videos teach me more than half a month of school
This was so clearly presented that I now think I can actually play.
I can finally understand. Now I can go back to playing the recorder.
Maria Jose Araujo 😂😂
Maria Jose Araujo when you have roblox as your profile pic
Hot Cross Buns
What do the pedals on a recorder do?
Lol
I thought its clutch, brake and gas
Hahaha
Far right will increase tempo middle will decrease tempo and far left is a fermata haha lol
That would've explained how Vanessa Carlton rode the piano in A Thousand Miles music video.
Use a hill toe then.
Watch it again closely. Set your phone down and then hold it. The keys do not move...the camera tricks your eyes.
Excellent explanation! I've sat down and played around with the pedals and sort of intuitively figured out most of it, but hearing such a clearly explained description of what exactly is happening is very much appreciated.
I just learned more in this video about the pedals than I did in 20 years of piano lessons including an Ivy League college where I earned a music composition degree. Thank you.
But what if the piano tells you to 'press any key to continue' ?
You sir, explained in the clearest possible way a lifelong doubt I had. Thank you for the great video.
Great explanations. Although, I'm pretty disappointed that one of these isn't a wah-wah pedal!
Hahaha! Sorry to disappoint you :(
kirk from metallica has a piano with a wah wah pedal
BodaciousWickerman the Kirk hammet special. Crybaby piano
BodaciousWickerman lol its not a guitar
You can get that, but you hafta pay extra (NYUK!)
my god your a genius! all i knew is how the sustain pedal worked. you taught me the best examples on how the 3 piano pedals work.
Awww shucks! Thanks.
Thank you for this informative and well-directed video!
"There are three pedals, I've only got two feet!" - Victor Borge
Or Americans when they see a manual car
@@trevn__ ~ Well it was an American who invented the automobile, so. . .
@@keepingitreel...8037 Google Karl Benz.
@@keepingitreel...8037 yeah but exactly what percent of Cars on American roads are stick shift? Your argument is invalid once you see the statistics.
Feet can be moved.
Never mind all the idiotic comments, this was actually an excellent explanation. Thank you!
Rick Wyk can’t take a joke?
@@ramen8130 I was going to ask which one is the choke pedal but I better not :p
*funny comments
You spelled funny wrong...
Chill bruv😂
I am a professional pianist.. What am I doing here
I was hoping they'd look at some of those weird pianos with like 5 pedals and explain the extra ones. nope, just basic shit XD
SOMBONG AMAT!1!
Showing off
Hahahah same
Because there’s always an Asian better than you
Being a non-piano player, I've always wondered what the pedals were for. Thanks for increasing my knowledge today!
thanks for this. growing up we had two upright pianos in the house. the left and the right pedals i could figure out just by experimenting, but i could never find a purpose for the middle one.
So glad you found this helpful, Gregory!
This was the opposite for me. The right was the sustain, and the middle was the damper. I had no idea what the left pedal did before this year, but when I tried using it correctly, nothing happened :(. It *is* an old piano, after all. It probably didn't work.
ᅚ I thought the damper and sustain pedal were the same?
Sorry. I’m a newb to piano.
You're right, damper and sustain refer to the same pedal and function. (Dampen is actually the opposite of sustain, but the term refers to the piano dampers, which are lifted when the pedal is used.) He meant to say "una corda"--which is more commonly called the "soft pedal." Most uprights don't have a true una corda, but produce a lower volume by other means.
The middle pedal is different on uprights. Some pianos the middle pedal will sustain just part of the keyboard like on studio uprights. Old uprights it was used to muffle the strings. I like the grand action better. The soft pedal on an upright does not move to the right or left. The soft pedal on an upright moves the hammers closer to the strings. Uprights have many limitations, slower actions make playing many classical pieces difficult if not impossible. And of course the pedals are different, except the damper pedal.
Right - The damper/sustain pedal.
Left - The soft pedal/una corda.
Middle - The sostenuto pedal.
Thanks, Mr Sung.
"Three pedals down there and I only have two feet. One must be overdrive." - Victor Borge
On a grand, the soft pedal does one other thing. The hammers usually have grooves where they hit the strings. When the soft pedal shifts them over, the softer part of the hammer - the part between the grooves- hits the strings, producing a much softer tone. This is qualitatively different from just hitting fewer strings, and a much more significant factor in the moderation of the tone.
Fun fact: “una corda” means “one string” in Italian, I didn’t get it from this video but I thought it was pretty cool
Fact: you can drift with a piano
Just play some Eurobeat
*insert deja bu meme*
Monikaaa love the ddlc fandom
Fact : bears eat beats
Fact: I'm watching this because parts of 'your reality' is played with the sustain pedal pressed
If you stomp on them hard enough, they break.
Thanks
the middle one brakes, doesn't it?
But why😂😂😂 but i killed myself laughing
Barsabus lmao sounds like you’ve actually tried it lmao 😂
Erich Minnaar same
Thank you for teaching us the subtleties of piano. What a great and grand instrument it has been.
It truly is. Thank you!
I grew up learning classical piano on an old upright Cunningham made around the turn of the century in Philadelphia. The keys were ivory, and the straps were leather. The finish on the outside was old and weathered, but when you flipped up the fall board the wood was a beautifully polished dark cherry. It must have been absolutely stunning to behold when it was new. Sadly, the repairs and tuning on such an old instrument became extremely cost ineffective and I had to give it away. I'd like to think that the family I gave it to is still playing it and loving it every bit as much as I did, and that one day they will pass it on to someone else who will love and play it just the same.
I've never touched a piano in my life and don't plan too. But this still interests me.
I’ve been playin for awhile
I’ve only used the sustain pedal. Didn’t know what the other two were till now
Thanks
Same
He's a doctor, he's an actor, now he's also a pianist.
He's also an assassin.
What a marvel of engineering.
George Hamilton agreed
Art at its finest
Thanks! I dont play piano, but I have always been curious about those pedals. You explained it pretty well, Hugh Sung!
Aww, thank you!
CunninghamPiano Youre welcome ^^
that name though! isn't that Pharrell?
You are a excellent teacher, thank you for the lesson!
I was trained on an organ years ago but later played a piano just for fun. I never knew what those pedals were for except the far right one. The wonder of RUclips. Thank you!
I am learning the piano as part of my bucket list and this was very informational. Thank you so much.
that was pretty informative. i'm glad i watched
The pedals get in the way i recommend sawing them off and selling them for scrap metal . You could get about four bucks for all three and that's one third of a pack of smokes .
@@bubbles3161 lmao
nice..now i know what all those pedals for 👍👍👍
Yay! Glad you found this video helpful!
So next time you drive a car, don't confuse them pedals with the ones in this video.
fareesyn A7X A7X !!! AS IN AVENGED SEVENFOLD!
Never mind the funny comments below. I am a beginning piano player, just finishing the first year of official music and instrument learning in Belgium, and I sincerely thank you, Mr. Sung, for the clear explanation and demonstration of what the 3 pedals are for. Compared to the brief indications I have hear or read before, this clip says it all.
I don't play the piano, but I found this interesting.
How the hell would you engineer the sostunuto pedal??!! This technology was probably invented like 500 years ago too.. guess they had a lot of time back then :P
People were smarter than the current generations would like to admit.
after thinking about it for a couple minutes... it wouldnt be that hard, keep in mind i have no idea how a pianos mechanisms actually work, but if a key is pressed it might pivot up at the other end (like a teeter totter), hitting the rods attached to the wood felt blocks making noise. but if the back of the key is up, you could put a rod horizontally against and under those keys thus holding them in place.
Edit, i just realized this would make the keys stay depressed which they are not.
yeah people did have alot of time back then. These kinda things they would do for fun or as hobbies.
John L older pianos only had 2 pedals
@@AzureSymbiote People say this about every generation
Just wait in the next 20-30 years people will say the same thing
Others: Sustain Pedal
Me: Gas Pedal
Just for allegro.....
Momentous 58 7
Momentous 58 Others:"You should press the pedal like this"
Me: H E E L A N D T O E
*Now do classical gas.* ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Your the first person to explain this properly, keep ‘em coming
okey but where is the wah pedal?
-Kirk Hammet
the "sauce teh noodle" pedal is my favorite pedal
😂😂😂😂😂
I was thinking the same thing Omg 😂😂😂
ahah I just commented this thinking I was the only one who thought of it
I read your comment at the precise moment he said it. Made me laugh sir! 😂
r/boneappletea
One thing that you implied but didn’t demonstrate is that when the sostenuto pedal is down after having pressed some keys, when those keys are played again they will be sustained. When first played, they will eventually fade out even though they’re not dampened, but to play them again they will be re-susstained. Great explanation though.
That's a great point - thanks for your helpful comment, Craig!
I struggled to find an answer about this thematic in the last 6 years . . . .
So much thank you, Mr. Sung.
Now show us the heel-toe technique for smooth downshifting.
So: soft, sustain hold, and sustain.
Yup. Or soft, softer and sustain, on most uprights
As a person whose only knowledge on the pedals is what he learned in this video, I will say no; it should be:
1- As long as held, everything is soft
2- As long as held, all notes that were being played during the initial holding of the pedal are sustained
3- As long as held, everything is sustained
No. You weren't paying attention. From left to right, it's: una corda, sostenuto, sustain/damper.
@@alhemičarka or soft, softer and the softest ;)
@@jtm232556 "sostenuto" just means "sustain" in Italian. Therefore calling one pedal "sustain" and another one "sostenuto" is very vage and doesn't indicate the difference between both pedals. "Sustain" and "sustain hold" is much more precise and informative
Wow! I've been playing the piano as a hobby for 30 years. I was not aware of the functions of those left and middle pedals! Very interesting!
Very informative, as a guitarist I also love the piano sound! :)
I grew up in a house that had an upright piano, I never knew what the pedals did til today. Thanks.
"The one in the middle is to separate the other two".__________Victor Borge
Stupid question (I'm a violinist), when music says "Ped." underneath the notes, are you supposed to just know which pedal to use? Or are the different pedals labeled differently? I assume it's quite trivial for a pianist to realize which pedal is the correct one to use given the music but I'm just curious because I only ever see "Ped." in piano sheet music, never anything else.
Actually a great question! "Ped." indicates using the damper/sustain pedal to the far right, by far the most common pedal used. "Una corda" or "U.C." indicates using the Una corda/soft pedal on the far left. "Sost." is the abbreviation used for the sostenuto pedal. Hope that helps!
Awesome, thank you for the answer. This answers a lot of questions.
Good question! Wondering about the same!
And thank you for the answer..I love piano ..but I wonder if I'll ever make it to get one...
Just a bass and guitar player =) And LOVE music !!
Don’t have a piano but “The more you know”
I knew the sustain pedal, but not the other two. Thank you for such a clear demonstration and explanation. I appreciate it!
I had a Yamaha M1 piano and the soft pedal worked differently. Instead of shifting the hammers to hit just 1 string, what happened at my piano was, that the hammers would get closer to the strings, meaning that they can build less momentum, thus sounding softer. Looking at my keyboard, the keys wouldn't shift to the right, but would simply go a little bit down, as if they're being pressed a little. I'm glad I had this piano, because keys changing position to the right can be confusing when you work on your blind coordination.
Magnificent video. Studying music, the question of what exactly the three piano pedals do and which one is which quickly becomes an "at this point I'm too afraid to ask" question I feel, and having it explained so clearly and technically is a pleasure. Thanks!
Great description. They work so beautifully on a Bösendorfer. (I have their model 170). The sostenuto pedal on older grands is often out of order because it is so rarely used and so many people don’t know how to use it. It can be very tricky to get it to engage because of the critical timing between striking the notes and depressing the sostenuto pedal.
We had an upright when I was growing up. I taught myself to play (though I wasn't all that good) Since, I never took lessons, I never knew what those pedals did. I only knew that one seemed to make the notes last longer. Now I know what they're for! Thanks!
Simply, the right one is the "sustain" pedal, the middle the "sustain lock" pedal, and the left is the "soft" pedal.
Wonderful video! The mechanics of a piano are beyond fascinating.
Thank you! So glad you enjoyed this video!
That's why the very best pianos are more expensive then a brand new Rolls Royce the engineering and craftsmanship that goes into them is staggering
Thank you...I've played for more than60 years and this is the 1st time anyone has explained the workings of the peddles. Thanks!!!
Always wondered about that middle one, will definitely try it next time I'm at a real piano!
I loved this. I always use the sustain pedal but had not much “of a clue” about the others. Thank you for explaining and showing the actual mechanics!
Imagine if the piano had wheels and legitimately starts accelerating when you step on the right pedal
I never understood what the middle pedal stood for...this explains everything so well. Thank you.
Wow
I’m 57 years young and always wondered about the pedals and never thought to look into it. Thanks for the info.
Dman Law haha is that irony
Clutch, brake and gas
Hahaha
Exactly! :-D
Dem logics
I don't play piano but I always wondered about those pedals and how they worked. Thank you for such a good explanation.
Liked the vid simply because this was short and quick to the point while even showing examples.
Hugh speaks so beautifully.
I am a piano teacher and find this video excellent, some other similar videos on YT give wrong information. Thanks for showing the mechanism inside the piano.
On my piano I never knew what the difference of the left and right pedal, but now it’s really cool to see how they work and what they do
i've always wondered what were the uses of the two other pedals than the sustain pedal
THANK YOU! This was a great simply put yet clear explanation