Pallas Sending you good thoughts.
Thank you! I am not actually freaking out, I'm just being dramatic 😉 But I am cancelling what I can this week so that I can practice!
Rubens Btw I find it quite puzzling that you feel the action of your piano is so different when playing una corda as opposed to tre corde, because all the una corda does is shift the entire action few millimeters to the right. I feel zero difference in the action on my piano,.only a difference in sound. Maybe you can describe in what way the action feels different to you?
So maybe this story will explain it. When my tech brought back my new action and hammers from his shop, I could not play pp. I literally could not play softly; I would try and nothing would come out. He's not a very delicate player and could not replicate it. I told him I've never had this issue with any other piano. After a bunch of thought and discussion he had a theory that the hammers needed to be voiced down. After he left I realized that I could easily test the theory by closing the lid! I did that and suddenly I could play softly again!! 😮
What was happening was that the piano was so loud that my touch was instinctively light, so to play softly I was lightening my touch to the point that I was only playing ghost notes.
Not sure if that's related to the una corda issue but I suspect the new hammers are too heavy and it already takes more effort than I'd like to play pianissimo. I'm used to my piano now and I can do it (it helps that the regulation is very dialed in), but it's not effortless. I think my touch is different because of the softer sound of u.c. and the heavy hammers are more obvious and I can no longer "fake it" with the control as well.
I think lightening the hammers and doing a key rebalance will be expensive work if it needs to be done and I might wait a year or two, let the regulation deteriorate a little first. My new tech said he won't have time to check the weights with his equipment his next visit since I want him to voice down the whole piano and it'll have to be during a future visit. So it's more of a long term plan...