In modern pianos, the strings are spaced too closely to permit a true " una corda " effect-if shifted far enough to strike just one string on one note, the hammers would also hit the string of the next note . " See Piano history and musical performance ".
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Member companies of Japan's AMEI developed the General MIDI Level 2 specification in 1999 . GM2 maintains backward compatibility with GM, but increases polyphony to 32 voices, standardizes several controller numbers such as for sostenuto and soft pedal ( " una corda " ), RPNs and Universal System Exclusive Messages, and incorporates the MIDI Tuning Standard.
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The " "'soft pedal " "'( or "'una corda pedal "') is one of the standard grand piano this pedal shifts the whole action including the keyboard slightly to the right, so that hammers which normally strike all three of the strings for a note strike only two of them.
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On early pianos it was possible by use of the soft pedal to play only one, two, or all three strings, making the distinction between " una corda " ( " one string " ) and " due corde " ( " two strings " ) meaningful; but this is no longer the case.
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With NLCC Wood undertook numerous CD recordings, many of which were world premiere recordings : these included music by Eric Bergman ( Chandos ), Lili Boulanger ( Hyperion ), Ruth Crawford Seeger ( Deutsche Grammophon ), Giacinto Scelsi ( Una Corda ), Frank Denyer ( Continuum ), Iannis Xenakis ( Hyperion ) and James Wood himself ( Continuum and NMC ).
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This caused the hammers to strike only one of the strings in its normal trichord and is now generally known as the " una corda " . ( In Cristofori's original design and in the Viennese pianos of the 18th Century, the una corda was operated by a knee lever since many pianos, like harpsichords, were not supplied with a dedicated stand and might be mounted on a convenient chest or cupboard ).
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This caused the hammers to strike only one of the strings in its normal trichord and is now generally known as the " una corda " . ( In Cristofori's original design and in the Viennese pianos of the 18th Century, the una corda was operated by a knee lever since many pianos, like harpsichords, were not supplied with a dedicated stand and might be mounted on a convenient chest or cupboard ).
